All of the hotly-disputed intercourse claims towards Prince Andrew

A bit over three years in the past, the Daily Mail printed a bombshell four-part sequence on the hotly-disputed intercourse allegations going through the Duke of the York.

Following an investigation lasting months – Andrew & Virginia: The Explosive Dossier – noticed senior investigative journalists Stephen Wright and Richard Pendlebury get hold of testimony from new witnesses, see delicate paperwork, be taught the contents of diaries and interview high-level sources.

Our inquiries took us from London to New York, Boston, Florida, the US Virgin Island, South Africa and Australia.

The findings of our sequence had been a list of damning revelations about Prince Andrew’s conduct. But we additionally raised questions concerning the accuracy of a few of his accuser Virginia Giuffre’s accusations.

We revealed how the Duke’s intercourse slave alibi had fallen aside, together with unique revelations about his personal diary which blew a gap in his ‘Pizza Express’ excuse for being unable to see his American teen accuser in London in 2001 , how he had booked to have a manicure on the day in query, and the way his daughter Beatrice couldn’t recall whether or not her father had collected her from a celebration Pizza Express in Woking, Surrey – a key a part of his alibi.

We regarded in forensic element on the Duke’s notorious go to to New York in 2001, when he allegedly met Giuffre for a second time.

We revealed how the Queen’s second son misled Emily Maitlis in a BBC interview, how he did spend an evening at Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan mansion, and the way his secret official itinerary confirmed he had hours of ‘personal time’ within the Big Apple.

And we examined the Prince’s go to to Epstein’s personal island, for a 48-hour ‘weekend-long occasion’, and the way Giuffre’s story about an under-age orgy there modified. And we detailed the royal’s journey to the paedophile financier’s Zorro ranch in New Mexico – and the differing accounts of what occurred there.

Today we revisit the ground-breaking sequence, first printed throughout 26 pages over 4 days in December 2020: 

PART ONE 

 New doubt over Duke’s alibi

• Private diary blows gap in ‘Pizza Express’ excuse for sex-claim day
• It exhibits he was booked for manicure at time the occasion in Woking started
• Even Beatrice and her hosts cannot recall if Duke made journey as he claimed
• But in-depth Mail investigation raises questions on accuser’s allegations, too

Prince Andrew’s Pizza Express ‘alibi’ is in tatters following a bombshell Daily Mail investigation.

In the primary instalment of an unique four-part sequence we will reveal astonishing particulars concerning the day he’s alleged to have slept together with his teenage intercourse accuser Virginia Roberts.

She says she was trafficked to London by the prince’s paedophile pal Jeffrey Epstein when she was simply 17. 

Our investigation into the occasions of March 10, 2001, can disclose that: 

• Princess Beatrice has ‘completely no recollection’ of the Pizza Express birthday celebration her father has claimed to have attended; 
• The household who hosted the occasion confirmed Beatrice got here however can not recall what occurred and whether or not the prince was there; 
• According to a household diary, the Duke of York had booked a house manicure on the afternoon he says he dropped Beatrice, then aged 12, on the occasion in Woking, Surrey; 
• Sources stated the prince had a ‘very obscure’ recollection of ready beneath a bridge close to Pizza Express to gather his daughter; 
• A royal safety officer stated to have been on responsibility that weekend, and who may probably help his alibi, has died; 
• Housekeepers on responsibility on the prince’s dwelling – Sunninghill Park, Ascot – ‘cannot bear in mind’ his actions on the weekend in query; 
• Concerns additionally emerged over the accuracy of Miss Roberts’ declare that she went clubbing in London with Andrew that night and over her description of a shower tub through which she says they’d intercourse; 
• An unique through-the-keyhole view exhibits the lavatory in Ghislaine Maxwell’s mews home in Belgravia; 
• The Duchess of York was within the United States selling chinaware to repay her large private money owed when Andrew is alleged to have bedded Miss Roberts.

Our devastating revelations comply with an investigation that has seen us get hold of testimony from new witnesses, see delicate paperwork, be taught the contents of diaries and interview high-level sources.

Our inquiries have taken us from London to New York, Boston, Florida, the US Virgin Islands, South Africa and Australia.

The sequence may also look at the precision of a few of Miss Roberts’ sensational allegations towards the duke, which have dogged him for practically ten years because the Mail on Sunday printed an image of the pair collectively.

It was allegedly taken in British socialite Miss Maxwell’s dwelling on March 10, 2001.

In a automobile crash interview with the BBC, the Queen’s second son rejected allegations made by Miss Roberts that they danced collectively at celeb evening spot Tramp in central London earlier than having intercourse.

His American accuser alleges they’d intercourse thrice in all – firstly in London, then in New York and eventually within the Caribbean.

Andrew vehemently denies her claims.

The prince’s extraordinary Pizza Express alibi prompted ridicule all over the world final November.

In the interview with Emily Maitlis of Newsnight, Andrew denied having intercourse with Miss Roberts at Miss Maxwell’s dwelling.

He stated it couldn’t have occurred as a result of he spent the day together with his daughter.

‘I used to be with the youngsters and I’d taken Beatrice to a Pizza Express in Woking for a celebration at, I suppose, kind of 4pm or 5pm within the afternoon,’

he stated. When requested why he would bear in mind a meal at Pizza Express 18 years later, he stated: ‘Because going to Pizza Express in Woking is an uncommon factor for me to do, a really uncommon factor for me to do … I’ve solely been to Woking a few instances and I bear in mind it weirdly distinctly.

‘As quickly as any person jogged my memory of it, I went, ‘Oh sure, I keep in mind that’.’

In June it was claimed that the prince was in a ‘Mexican standoff’ with US prosecutors.

He was stated to be ‘completely bewildered’ after he was accused of refusing to be interviewed by the Epstein investigators.

Friends stated they had been mystified by claims Andrew refused to cooperate with the probe – but stopped in need of denying it was true.

US prosecutor Geoffrey Berman stated the prince had ‘repeatedly declined’ a request to be interviewed and had ‘unequivocally’ said he wouldn’t are available for one. But Andrew’s London legal professionals say he provided to supply a press release.

The prince gave the impression to be at loggerheads with the Americans as a result of they needed a face-to-face interview, whereas he needed to supply proof in writing.

In July the prosecutors urged Andrew to ‘speak to us’ after the FBI arrested Miss Maxwell on baby intercourse fees.

Their name got here after they pounced on the British socialite in a daybreak raid on her hideaway in New Hampshire. Hours later she appeared in courtroom charged with the sordid abuse of ladies as younger as 14, together with one in London. Last evening the US Department of Justice declined to solutions a sequence of questions from the Daily Mail.

These included whether or not it had reached settlement with Prince Andrew’s authorized group over the phrases of taking testimony from him and whether or not it had obtained the unique – reasonably than a replica – of the broadly publicised image purporting to indicate Andrew together with his arm across the waist of Miss Roberts. The Mail additionally requested representatives of Andrew a sequence of questions concerning the London allegations made by Miss Roberts.

A spokesman for the duke stated: ‘It wouldn’t be acceptable to touch upon any of those issues.’ A pal stated: ‘The duke has already publicly said he has no recollection of assembly Virginia Roberts. Nor has he any recollection of eating in a Chinese restaurant or attending Tramp on the evening in query.

‘It can be well-known amongst the duke’s circle of pals and his employees that he has been teetotal his total grownup life.’

A supply near the duke added: ‘In the Buckingham Palace assertion made on nineteenth August 2019 the Duke expressed deep concern for the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and hoped that they might discover some decision.

‘It is a matter of deep remorse to the Duke that he didn’t reiterate that empathy for the survivors throughout his Newsnight interview, which was clearly a mistake.’

Miss Roberts’ representatives in New York didn’t reply to repeated requests to touch upon a sequence of questions from the Mail.

It’s the declare that is destroyed the Duke’s fame: that he slept with a teenage Epstein ‘sex-traffic sufferer’ THREE instances. The Mail’s spent months investigating, with distinctive entry to top-level sources and paperwork. The outcomes? Deeply revealing . . . and troubling

A blustery, moist Saturday morning and St Swithun’s, a ladies’ public faculty in Winchester, is about to host a lacrosse fixture towards St George’s School, Ascot.

It is at all times a keenly fought affair. But there’s a heightened anticipation within the dwelling altering rooms on that morning of March 10, 2001. Among the Swithunites’ opponents in a junior match can be a real VVIP: she is Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice, elder daughter of the Duke of York. The Queen’s granddaughter, no much less.

The results of this conflict has been misplaced within the mists of time. It is not of any consequence. But the identical can’t be stated of different occasions involving the York family as that Saturday unfolded.

For this was the ‘day of days’ so far as the Duke’s involvement within the Jeffrey Epstein paedophile scandal is anxious. In London early that night Andrew is claimed to have been launched to a 17-year-old American referred to as Virginia Roberts.

Miss Roberts was lower than 5 years older than Beatrice. But not like the Princess, her childhood had not been considered one of nice privilege; reasonably she suffered intercourse abuse, homelessness and drug issues earlier than being recruited by the Wall Street billionaire as his private ‘masseuse’ and finally turned considered one of his groomed ‘sex-slaves’.

That night, she says, she and Andrew danced collectively at Tramp nightclub. She claims they then returned to the Belgravia dwelling of Andrew’s previous pal and Epstein’s then-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, the place HRH put his arm across the teenager’s naked midriff to pose for that {photograph}.

‘Foreplay’ within the toilet led to royal ‘ecstasy’ in an adjoining bed room.

In brief, the destroy that’s the Duke’s fame, his banishment from public life and the U.S. Department of Justice’s ongoing need to query him about his half within the Epstein affair, might be traced again to Saturday, March 10, 2001.

The Duke emphatically denies having had sexual relations with Miss Roberts or any minor. He has stated he can not recall ever having met her, not least in an notorious interview final yr with Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis.

There is little doubt in any way that Miss Roberts was a sufferer of Epstein. She distressingly recounts how she was groomed and pressured by him into having intercourse with quite a few males, all of them strangers. One can solely think about what a devastating impact this is able to have had on a 17-year-old lady.

But was she additionally a sufferer of the Duke?

Over numerous months the Mail has performed a forensic investigation of her allegations towards Andrew.

We have secured the testimonies of beforehand unheard eyewitnesses, discovered new top-level sources and confidential paperwork, and analysed hundreds of authorized displays from Epstein circumstances which have been launched into the general public area.

The Mail has examined the as-yet unexplained variations and discrepancies inside Miss Roberts’ varied accounts.

Commenting on any inaccuracies, she has stated: ‘You are left with a foggy reminiscence generally, you actually are,’ and: ‘I may be fallacious on dates completely and I may be fallacious on locations even, generally.’

Given the terrible trauma that she suffered at Epstein’s palms, that is fully comprehensible. And what she alleges happened virtually 20 years in the past. Memories fade.

Nonetheless she has accused the Duke of getting had three sexual encounters along with her in 2001. Public opinion is towards him and his protestations of innocence. At the guts of this hostility are the alleged occasions of March10, 2001, and the notorious {photograph} which seems to corroborate her claims of intimacy between them.

Now, for the primary time, the story of that day might be instructed as much as the purpose the place their two narratives collide.

FERGIE’S BRUNCH AND SCHOOL SPORTS 

In his disastrous interview on BBC Newsnight final yr, the Duke stated of March 10, 2001, ‘The Duchess was away (and) we have now a easy rule within the household that when one is away the opposite (father or mother) is there. I used to be on terminal depart on the time from the Royal Navy so due to this fact I used to be at dwelling’.

He was pressed on this by Maitlis: ‘So you are completely certain that you just had been dwelling on the tenth March?’

‘Yeah,’ he answered. Before we look at the Duke’s recollection, allow us to verify the whereabouts of the Duchess and the explanation for her absence from Sunninghill Park (the couple’s much-derided, ranch-style mansion close to Ascot).

The Mail has discovered of the existence of a non-public doc which seems to set out the Yorks’ anticipated schedule for that day.

It is in impact a family diary and the entries had been purportedly handwritten by the Duchess someday earlier than March 10, 2001. It will not be potential for the Mail to confirm precisely once they had been written. But, as we will see, the diary’s existence right now does supply an evidence for the provenance of one of the vital remarked upon claims put ahead by the Duke throughout his Newsnight interview.

The Duchess’s commitments within the diary are lined by the only cryptic entry ‘NY Brunch 11.’

The entry is a reference to a gathering which the Duchess was to undertake in Manhattan that morning, New York time.

Since her separation and divorce from the Duke, her way of life had seen her run up huge private money owed, stated to be as a lot as £4 million.

In an try to shut this large deficit, the Duchess had entered into numerous profitable industrial partnerships, buying and selling on her royal connection. Her attendance at that brunch on March 10 was a part of her take care of the chinaware agency Wedgwood, which was paying her a wage of greater than £500,000.

On March 7, she had been boosting the agency in Atlanta, Georgia. The Mail has situated a recent flyer which exhibits that by March 9 the Duchess had moved on to the state of Virginia.

There she gave a presentation to 500 customers within the gown division of Hecht’s division retailer within the small however rich city of McLean (inhabitants 38,000).

The commercial promised the Duchess would present ‘how she resists routine and bends the foundations of dwelling entertaining. With a splash of creativeness she creates a memorable desk’. She would additionally share ‘glimpses of her personal personal life’.

Afterwards she would autograph Wedgwood items within the girls’s division. Attendees had been suggested seating must be reserved, together with purchases to be signed by the speaker.

Meanwhile, the Duchess was additionally showing in a U.S. TV commercial (one other £400,000) for funding agency Schwab through which she talked to the ‘putative bride for a prince concerning the significance of understanding how cash works.’

Someone else who actually knew how cash labored was Jeffrey Epstein, from whom the Duchess borrowed £15,000 to cowl a debt.

So the Duchess was 3,000 miles from dwelling, repairing her monetary disaster. Back at Sunninghill Park – which he nonetheless shared together with his ex-wife and daughters, then aged 12 and ten – the Duke was the only father or mother in cost.

Sources say the ladies’ weekday nanny had taken the Saturday and Sunday off, her supervisory function taken by a weekend housekeeper and butler. How would the day progress beneath the Duke’s route?

‘B – lacrosse match vs St Swithun’s (away),’ says the primary entry.

Then ‘E – netball trophy 10-12.’

Princess Eugenie was additionally in sporting motion, although the entry doesn’t say the place. Nor can the diary verify the Duke’s attendance at both occasion.

Whether he did cheer from the touchlines or not has no impression on Roberts’ personal account of the day. But the narratives of accuser and accused had been approaching the collision level.

NOISES OFF AND THAT PIZZA ‘ALIBI’ 

In the Newsnight interview, the Duke volunteered what he claimed to have been considered one of his (innocent) home duties through the late afternoon of March 10.

‘I’d taken Beatrice to a Pizza Express in Woking for a celebration, at I suppose kind of 4 or 5 within the afternoon,’ he stated.

‘Why would you keep in mind that so particularly?’ requested Maitlis. ‘Why would you bear in mind a Pizza Express birthday?’

‘Because going to Pizza Express in Woking is an uncommon factor for me to do,’ he replied. ‘I’ve solely been to Woking a few instances and I bear in mind it weirdly distinctly. As quickly as somebody jogged my memory of it, I went: ‘Oh sure, I keep in mind that.’ But I’ve no recollection of ever assembly or being within the firm or the presence.’

The concept of ‘Air Miles Andy’ hanging out at a department of Pizza Express within the M25 commuter city of Woking attracted scepticism, if not ridicule. So did the Duke’s lack of recall of some other element about this event. It additionally did not move muster as an alibi for his denial of getting been at Tramp in London that evening.

But he had talked about the episode solely as a result of somebody had ‘reminded’ him. Presumably that somebody had entry to the identical family diary described extra not too long ago to the Mail.

There are three entries in that doc which apparently relate to the afternoon of March10, 2001. The first reads ‘B – xxxxxx’s occasion @Ambassadors Theatre, Woking.’ Mail inquiries have discovered the occasion host, whose title we have now redacted, was a lady at Beatrice’s faculty. The r Theatre Group ew Victoria Theatre

Ambassador owns the New in Woking. That Saturday the New Victoria was internet hosting a touring manufacturing of Michael Frayn’s traditional backstage farce inside a farce, Noises Off. Patricia Hodge was among the many solid. Saturday matinees on the New Victoria normally start at 2.30pm.

This is the precise time listed alongside the following entry within the diary. That entry is a single phrase: ‘Manicure.’

According to the diary, this magnificence remedy was not booked for the Duchess or her daughters. The manicure was for ‘A’ – Andrew, the Duke himself. It was to be carried out by a lady referred to as ‘Jeanne’, the entry says.

This conflict in timings means that the Duke didn’t drop Beatrice on the theatre, which was greater than ten miles from their dwelling, if she was to make it there time case in time. In any case, the Princess had her personal police bodyguard who would have accompanied her to the occasion.

What then of the Duke’s ‘weirdly’ distinct recall of his time in Woking that afternoon?

The third and ultimate entry within the diary for that Saturday afternoon affords some rationalization if not salvation. It says ‘Pizza Express’.

The Mail understands that the department on Goldsworth Road, Woking is the place the birthday partygoers went for a post-theatre meal.

Noises Off will not be an extended play, sometimes lasting not more than two hours and ten minutes together with interval. The Woking department of the restaurant is simply half a mile from the New Victoria Theatre. The schoolgirls may due to this fact have been anticipated to reach on the venue just a little after 5pm. At finest, the Duke’s Newsnight recall – ‘I’d taken Beatrice to a Pizza Express in Woking for a celebration, at I suppose kind of 4 or 5 within the afternoon’ – was a guesstimate based mostly on the diary entry and a faint reminiscence. But if the Princess had attended the matinee, because the diary suggests, she ought to have arrived in Woking a number of hours sooner than that – simply when the Duke was due for his manicure.

It’s potential that for some purpose she had solely attended the meal and never the theatre, dropped off by her father at 5pm, as he recalled. Or was she maybe picked up by the Duke after the meal had completed, regardless of his particular Newsnight declare that he had ‘taken Beatrice to a Pizza Express’?

We perceive he now has a ‘obscure recollection’ of being parked up and ‘ready beneath a railway bridge’ close by. The major Waterloo-to-Exeter railway line runs via Woking. It crosses over a major highway some 300 metres from Pizza Express. Still, it’s an odd element for the Duke to recollect, when he forgets a lot else.

What of Princess Beatrice? Alas for the Duke, in keeping with an impeccable supply she has ‘completely no recall in any way’ of this Pizza Express occasion or her father selecting her up. She qualifies this incapability to help her father’s account, by stating that as a schoolgirl she went to ‘any quantity’ of meals on the Woking Pizza Express. She can not bear in mind each single one, 20 years after the occasion.

The Mail has additionally acquired a press release from the mother and father of the lady who threw the Pizza Express occasion. The household had been anxious to assist the Yorks. But whereas they stated that Beatrice did go to their occasion they don’t have any footage nor a recall of the occasion.

‘We had made a deliberate choice from the outset to not take images of, or round, Bea because it gave the impression to be completely open season amongst some mother and father who indulged on this sport,’ the mother and father defined.

‘The occasion was virtually 20 years in the past.

We had been dwelling in Woking and had two daughters at prep faculty there. Not solely had been their birthdays celebrated in Pizza Express however virtually each starting of time period, finish of time period and half-term. Pizza Express was simply the place they appreciated to go for his or her treats.’

They added: ‘Bea was considered one of our daughter’s pals at college. There had been no particular preparations or formalities relating to her mother and father, they had been regularly across the faculty and the ladies’ social lives. They had been casual and unobtrusive.’

There is a degree to this shut examination of the Duke’s obscure recollections of what he claims was his innocently spent day.

What if the Duke did not play any direct half in Beatrice’s attendance on the birthday celebration, leaving the fetching and carrying to her bodyguards or his home employees?

Once ‘Jeanne’ had accomplished his manicure, he may have been pushed to Central London earlier than 5pm.

If the Duke was solely in Woking briefly, between 4-5pm as he stated, then conceivably he may even have reached the capital in time for late tea with Epstein and his entourage.

But if the Duke had been current as a hands-on father to choose up his daughter on the finish of the birthday meal, after which taken her again to Sunninghill Park, he couldn’t have been in Central London that evening a lot earlier than 8pm.

This final state of affairs is the one one of many three incompatible together with his accuser’s personal account of what occurred that afternoon and night.

And as we will see, there are extra troubling points forward.

Special analysis: SIMON TRUMP. Picture analysis: SUE CONNOLLY 

His accuser claims they partied the evening away at a VIP membership. Andrew insists it is merely not potential. Now new proof serves up… a cocktail of battle

Flight logbooks belonging to the pilot of Jeffrey Epstein’s personal plane recommend that the tycoon’s Gulfstream jet took off from Palm Beach certain for Newfoundland on the night of March 5, 2001. It refuelled in Canada earlier than the following and longest leg of their journey, to Paris.

On March 8, the airplane flew from France to Granada in Spain and on once more to Tangier. The following day it left Morocco for London Luton Airport. On board that ultimate leg in keeping with the passenger manifest had been Epstein, Maxwell, Virginia Roberts and a younger lady stated to be Maxwell’s assistant.

Miss Roberts has described her alleged recollection of the following day’s occasions in numerous media interviews, authorized depositions and, in most element, the 140-page manuscript of her unpublished memoir Billionaire Playboys Club. They are largely in line with one another.

The evening of March 9 was spent, she stated, at Maxwell’s mews home in Kinnerton Street, Belgravia. The following morning she was woken by Maxwell.

In her memoir she recalled Maxwell saying: ‘We’re going looking for a brand new ensemble … to go dancing with a Prince of England this night’.

Miss Roberts wrote: ‘Hoping it could be one of many youthful generations, I used to be disillusioned when she instructed me he was the Duke of York.’

In her memoir and different accounts, she says the Duke arrived at Kinnerton Street ‘simply after six o’clock within the night’.

The quartet had tea and biscuits collectively, throughout which the Prince guessed accurately that Miss Roberts was solely 17 years previous. Meanwhile, two royal bodyguards waited in a automobile exterior. Miss Roberts stated she had thought it a good suggestion to take ‘a number of Xanax’ to beat her mounting anxiousness.

During his Newsnight interview, Andrew admitted that he had visited Maxwell’s home – and appeared to know the structure properly – however not on the evening alleged.

In her memoir, Miss Roberts described how over tea the ensemble took turns ‘slandering’ the Duke’s ‘not too long ago divorced ex-wife Fergie’.

This allegation is challenged by acquaintances of the Duke.

They say he has at all times remained fiercely loyal to the Duchess and would by no means countenance others ‘slandering’ her in entrance of him, not to mention do it himself earlier than a stranger. They additionally level out that the couple weren’t ‘not too long ago divorced’ in 2001. They had separated virtually a decade earlier than and divorced in 1996. That stated, we now know that her absence from the UK that day was due partially to her reckless spendthrift tendencies.

MY FAIR LADY – OR OFF TO TRAMP? 

Asked on Newsnight if he remembered ‘dancing at Tramp’ on March 10, the Duke answered: ‘No, that could not have occurred as a result of… I used to be at dwelling with the youngsters.’

That night, BBC1 was displaying The National Lottery Jet Set, through which contestants had an opportunity ‘to expertise the approach to life of the wealthy and well-known’.

BBC2 broadcast an appreciation of the musical My Fair Lady. Perfect couch viewing for a single father and his two younger daughters.

But Miss Roberts claims that by this time the only father was partying with the ‘jet set’, some 25 miles to the north-east of his two Princesses.

In her manuscript for her proposed e book, she described how, after consuming tea, the Epstein occasion and the Duke went to a ‘restaurant (which) was a detailed drive for us … Andrew, his two guards and his driver following behind us. I used to be seated subsequent to the Prince for dinner.’

In a 2015 authorized deposition, she is extra particular concerning the venue. ‘We all went to a Chinese restaurant for dinner.’

A pal of the Duke says of this declare: ‘No. It was very uncommon for him to go to eating places, notably in London as a result of (the eye) was fairly uncomfortable (then). It’s one thing he is solely completed within the final 5 years.’

The pal added: ‘The solely Chinese restaurant he can (ever) recall going to in London is China Tang on the Dorchester. And that opened in 2005.’

In her manuscript, her depositions and media interviews, Miss Roberts is constant on what occurred after dinner.

‘The subsequent place we had been going was way more my fashion,’ she writes. ‘We pulled up subsequent to a nightclub referred to as ‘Tramp’ … one of the vital unique haunts on the planet for the wealthy and well-known to be seen.’

Certainly, for greater than half a century, Tramp has been a latenight honeypot for the beau monde. It has lengthy been fertile floor for Fleet Street gossip columnists, however it seems Miss Roberts’ raunchy dance with the Duke escaped their consideration – and that of the paparazzi who normally patrol its doorstep.

Miss Roberts went on: ‘Andrew’s guards waited exterior whereas all of us went to hit the dancefloor.’ And what a spectacle they will need to have made collectively; the Queen’s middleaged second son and the croptopped teenager. If certainly they had been there collectively.

Miss Roberts recalled that the Duke was ‘shifting his palms throughout the curves of my physique, to not shrink back from the truth that he was in public, he was whispering candy nothings into my ear and kissing my neck. I might simply giggle not likely understanding the way to reply to an getting old man with a nasty smile and horrible strikes … ‘After an hour of pelvic smashing to the DJ’s pumping mixes we lastly exited the ground, His Royal Highness was dripping with sweat and able to embark onto a quieter scene.’

‘ALCOHOL IN THE VIP SECTION’ 

In a ‘journal’ leaked to Radar Online web site, Miss Roberts is reported to have written: ‘We had been let in to the VIP part the place Andrew didn’t hesitate to seize us each an alcoholic cocktail and located a desk in a nook of the extraordinarily packed membership.’

In the manuscript of her memoir, she wrote: ‘Andrew went to the bar to seize us all drinks. He got here again with glowing water for Jeffrey and a cocktail for the remainder of us, already understanding that Jeffrey by no means drank alcohol. We downed our glasses.’ In an interview with NBC TV, she recalled: ‘Prince Andrew received me alcohol, it was within the VIP part, I’m fairly certain it was vodka.’

These particulars of the Duke’s alleged consuming, his journeys to and from the bar, the existence of a ‘VIP part’ at Tramp and his bodyguards ready on the street have been challenged by those that know Andrew and the nightclub.

Breaking royal protocol, three of the Duke’s former equerries who served him over a interval of greater than 30 years spoke to the Mail.

His equerry on the time of the alleged Tramp incident stated: ‘The portrayed occasion animal, you recognize, two o’clock within the morning and something concerning the consuming stuff, it is not him in any respect. He by no means touches alcohol.’

He stated of the dancing allegation. ‘The concept of him dancing like that with all eyes on him is … unimaginable.’

An older equerry, who continues to be in contact with the Duke a long time after working with him, confirmed: ‘In my 30 odd years I’ve by no means seen him take a single drink. He does not even drink a loyal toast from what I can bear in mind. Any lapses of judgment are actually not alcohol-fuelled.’

A 3rd, who labored with the Duke extra not too long ago, stated: ‘I discover it fairly humorous when he’s reported as having downed cocktails. He does not even drink Coca-Cola or something like that. It’s simply plain, easy spring water.

‘At engagements we would ask for water in a water glass as a result of individuals can misconstrue it if you happen to’re holding water in a champagne glass or water in a wine glass.’

Another acquaintance stated ‘The concept of Andrew queuing at a bar to purchase a spherical of drinks is ludicrous.’

Andrew added his personal voice to those challenges when he stated on Newsnight: ‘I do not know the place the bar is in Tramp.’

Further, Giuseppe ‘Guido’ Guida, the ‘legendary’ maitre d’ at Tramp, has confirmed to the Mail that in all his a long time of service he’d by no means seen the Duke drink alcohol. Mr Guida was nonetheless in submit on the important thing evening in query in March 2001. Now retired, he instructed us: ‘I am unable to touch upon what occurred in a non-public room however his (the Duke’s) behaviour in public was impeccable.’

Mr Guida stated he discovered it ‘laborious’ to think about that the Duke danced suggestively with a 17-year-old lady for a complete hour inside Tramp. Certainly he by no means noticed it occur, he stated, although his duties, he admitted, generally took him from the general public space and into Tramp’s kitchen.

‘I solely recall the Duke dancing with the Duchess,’ he stated. (Another former senior member of the Tramp hierarchy recalled the Duke taking Koo Stark to the membership on a date within the early Eighties, however once more couldn’t recall the Duke dancing with a young person).

Mr Guida stated that Tramp didn’t have a VIP part. The Duke would usually sit within the ‘restaurant or the discotheque space’. His bodyguards sat at one other desk, if there was room. All company must signal the guests’ e book, he stated. (Alas, the ledger from 2001 cannot be traced). Mr Guida remembered Ghislaine Maxwell visiting the membership, as considered one of her brothers was a member. Tramp had an over-18 age coverage, however it was not strictly enforced. Visitors may put on denims.

There had been ‘at all times’ paparazzi exterior the membership, he recalled. It was ‘not possible’ to slide out and in unnoticed. As Miss Roberts urged, one went there ‘to be seen’. And but the Prince and {the teenager} weren’t.

A former senior royalty safety officer, who sorted the Duke, instructed the Mail through an middleman: ‘Every time I’ve been to a nightclub with ‘H’ (the Duke’s police nickname) there have been paps exterior as we left. It was virtually a given.’

The Mail has contacted greater than a dozen paparazzi or image companies who had been working the West End nightclub beat in March 2001. None have any footage of the Duke or Epstein, Maxwell or Roberts arriving at or leaving Tramp on the evening in query.

Yet there does exist one {photograph} of the Duke along with a pretty blonde at Tramp, in March 2001. It even might be seen on the web.

The image was taken on March 13, on the fortieth birthday celebration of his pal Guy Sangster – simply three days after his alleged occasion evening with Virginia Roberts. A photographer from Tatler’s Bystander society column snapped him in dialog with the racing tycoon’s spouse, Fi.

HRH is carrying a conservative swimsuit and tie and clutching … the inevitable glass of water. 

Inside the ‘intercourse within the tub’ home… however was the bathtub too small to suit two individuals, as Maxwell allies say? Mail’s first to see it

Four doorways opened onto the first-floor touchdown of Ghislaine Maxwell’s London pied-a-terre. Viewed from the highest of the steps to the bottom ground, the door on the fitting led right into a master suite.

That is the place Epstein and Maxwell slept collectively that Saturday evening, a supply claims. The door on the left (towards which the Duke and Miss Roberts are seen within the {photograph}) led to the study-cum-second bed room. That was Miss Roberts’s room.

Directly reverse the highest of the steps had been two additional doorways; an airing cabinet and the doorway to the lavatory. The latter was ‘the place I led (the Duke)’, Miss Roberts recalled within the manuscript of her memoir. ‘It was a beige marble tiled ground with porcelain Victorian-style bathtub in the midst of the room and nowhere close to the dimensions of Jeffrey’s residences.’

She wrote: ‘I turned on the faucets for the bathtub and the warmth from the water started to steam up the small room … Trying to do the perfect of my youthfulness to try to act seductive, I regularly started to strip off my clothes, piece by piece … He beloved each second of it as I went over to the place he was ready and watching, then started to undress him … We kissed and touched one another earlier than submersing into the recent water, the place we each continued to re-enact foreplay. He was adorning (sic) my younger physique, notably my ft … It wasn’t laborious to get him wound as much as the purpose the place he simply needed to have the remainder of me.’

The explosive conclusion to this encounter happened in her ‘bedchamber’, she stated. But it’s the toilet and, specifically, the tub and its dimensions, that has been the main focus of authorized curiosity.

Under oath throughout Miss Roberts’ defamation motion towards her, Maxwell stated: ‘The tub is just too small for any sort of exercise in any way.’

In his e book Relentless Pursuit, Miss Roberts’ lawyer Brad Edwards wrote that the tub was mentioned when he met Epstein in a Starbucks in Boca Raton, Florida, in 2015. The tycoon had contacted him out of the blue.

He claimed that Epstein had stated to him: ‘If I may present you ways small Ghislaine’s tub was in that residence, it could be robust for 2 individuals to slot in there.’

Edwards stated he dismissed the remark, suggesting it was a weak authorized level to drive. But different legal professionals have tried. Are making an attempt.

The Mail understands that Miss Roberts’ authorized group has not had entry to the disputed toilet. But two members of Maxwell’s authorized group – she nonetheless owns the property – have climbed into the tub collectively, absolutely clothed, to check the bodily risk of an assignation akin to that described in Miss Roberts’ account.

They claimed to not be persuaded, a supply stated.

BATH CRAMMED INTO AN ALCOVE 

So the Mail performed our personal inquiries. We have discovered a floorplan of the lavatory, taken from a 1987 planning software. We have additionally had entry to way more latest photos of the room.

There are two observations. One is that the lavatory is certainly ‘small’, as either side agree; cramped, if one wished to carry out something apart from solo ablutions.

The second? There will not be a freestanding Victorian tub tub in the midst of the room, as described by Miss Roberts, in both iteration of the lavatory designs.

The historic plan exhibits a ‘normal dimension’ – 5ft 6in by 2ft 4in – alcove tub, boxed in on two sides by partitions and on a 3rd by the again of the airing cabinet.

The remaining 36sqft is basically taken up by a bidet, a bathroom and huge sink. It may be very bijou.

The latest photos present virtually the identical structure. A sink nonetheless faces the door, a bathe stall has changed the bidet on the left, subsequent to a bathroom. An alcove tub is on the fitting.

We have additionally acquired testimony from an previous acquaintance of Maxwell’s who stated: ‘I’ve visited the property on a number of events through the years. Even by the requirements of a small mews home, the lavatory could be described as compact. There is not more than a few inches between the bathroom, sink and tub … to manoeuvre.’

She stated that others who had often visited the property over the previous 20 years all agreed that ‘no modifications have taken place to (the lavatory’s) important structure.’

THE DEAD ‘KEY WITNESS’ 

Aside from his personal poor reminiscence, the Duke’s elementary downside in proving his innocence of the March 10 allegations is that this: of the 4 sources who must be finest in a position to present another eyewitness account of that night, one – Epstein was a convicted paedophile who has since dedicated suicide, whereas one other – Maxwell – is on remand in a U.S. jail going through fees of perjury and aiding the tycoon in sex-trafficking, fees that she denies.

But what of the Duke’s responsibility police bodyguards for that evening? It was their job not solely to watch the Duke’s actions, however to log them for the official file.

Sources near the Duke say it has been tough to determine the related private safety officers (PPOs) from 2001. This has been blamed variously on ‘chaotic Met Police information’ and the occasions happening so way back, in what was nonetheless, largely, an analogue period.

But a ‘breakthrough’ of types has been achieved. When he was at dwelling at Sunninghill Park on a weekend night, the Duke was protected by one reasonably than two PPOs, sources declare.

They say the related PPO has now been recognized. The Mail has been given a reputation. It has additionally been confirmed to us by a former senior colleague that this officer has since died. If so, he has taken the Duke’s alibi to the grave – if such an alibi would have been offered.

The fourth first-hand eyewitnesses that evening had been the home employees at Sunninghill.

Through intermediaries, the Mail was instructed by the responsibility housekeeper: ‘I labored at Sunninghill Park the weekend of March 10, 2001, with (title withheld) as butler.

‘My duties had been housekeeping and assist with the Princesses as required. The Duchess and Duke had a rule that one father or mother was current if the opposite needed to be away.

(The butler) and I each helped. I went dwelling after the youngsters’s baths, (the butler) catch (sic) a prepare to London. The nanny would return for responsibility on Mon morn’.

But, crucially, the housekeeper can not bear in mind whether or not this tub evening happened on the Saturday (the night in query) or Sunday – or whether or not the Duke was dwelling on each nights.

After all, it was a very long time in the past, stated. Indeed it was. But theshe stated. was. truth is that the Duke of York has confronted these particular allegations for nearly a decade now.

His solely defence towards Miss Roberts’ detailed accusations stays blunt denial. He has not been in a position to supply up a reputable and corroborated various narrative. There has additionally been a company lack of reminiscence so far as these round him are involved.

One is minded of his horribly complacent comment on the finish of his Newsnight interview. ‘I believe you’ve got dragged out of me most of what’s required,’ he stated.

That is solely not the case. And in Part Two of this sequence on Monday, the Mail will fill in additional of the holes within the royal narrative – together with a confession that explodes one other of his Newsnight claims altogether.

PART TWO

New Andrew bombshell 

• Duke misled Emily Maitlis in BBC interview
• He DID spend evening at paedophile Epstein’s mansion
• Secret itinerary exhibits his hours of ‘personal time’

Prince Andrew did keep at Jeffrey Epstein’s New York mansion throughout a visit when it’s alleged he slept with a trafficked teenager, the Daily Mail can reveal for the primary time.

Andrew, 60, instructed Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis final yr: ‘I wasn’t staying there. I could have visited however positively did not, positively, positively no, no, no exercise.’

But a Mail investigation has found each the duke and a Scotland Yard bodyguard did spend an evening at Epstein’s townhouse, the most important within the metropolis. It was throughout this three-day journey to the United States that the prince’s accuser, Virginia Roberts, alleges she slept with the father-of-two for a second time after a earlier encounter in London – claims the duke has at all times vehemently denied.

Well-placed sources have confirmed Andrew stayed at Epstein’s £60million dwelling on the ultimate evening of his pre-Easter go to to the US in 2001 ‘to save lots of taxpayers’ cash’. But the insiders confused that neither Epstein, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell nor Miss Roberts had been on the property on the time.

An official itinerary seen by the Daily Mail exhibits that the duke spent the primary evening of his US journey on the residence of the British consul normal in New York, then flew to Boston for twenty-four hours, earlier than returning to New York the place he slept ‘at a non-public deal with’.

That deal with was Epstein’s dwelling close to Central Park, the sources have confirmed.

Our investigations have additionally uncovered a spot of some hours put aside in New York for what was referred to as ‘Private Time’ within the duke’s confidential tour itinerary.

Andrew has not been in a position to clarify what he was doing throughout this time however Miss Roberts and one other Epstein ‘masseuse’ have each stated they met him within the metropolis.

Miss Roberts, now a mom of three dwelling in Australia, claims she was trafficked by Epstein to have intercourse with the duke on three events in 2001, together with in New York round Easter that yr, when she was 17.

Andrew strongly denies all her allegations and says he can not even recall assembly her, regardless of the pair being apparently pictured collectively at Miss Maxwell’s London dwelling on March 10, 2001.

The duke is alleged to have had intercourse with Miss Roberts in New York on the similar time he was accused of a weird groping incident involving a ‘Spitting Image’ puppet and one other younger feminine at Epstein’s mansion.

The different lady, Johanna Sjoberg, has not alleged any improper conduct by Andrew.

When requested by Miss Maitlis on Newsnight about Miss Sjoberg’s Spitting Image account, the prince appeared to concede that he may need visited the property.

Andrew instructed her: ‘I most likely did… due to what I used to be doing I used to be staying with the consul normal which is additional down the road on Fifth so I wasn’t…I wasn’t staying there. I could have visited however positively did not, positively, positively no, no, no exercise.’

Details of how the prince gave an inaccurate account of his New York sleeping preparations throughout his bumbling BBC interview comply with a significant investigation by this newspaper into the claims made towards him by Miss Roberts.

Today we reveal the important thing findings from our probe into Andrew’s journey to the town. This consists of:

• How confidential official paperwork reveal the duke had made provision for 3 hours of ‘Private Time’ – across the time he allegedly bedded Miss Roberts at Epstein’s dwelling;
• How neither of his two Scotland Yard bodyguards on the journey, nor his equerry, are in a position to present an alibi for this a part of his schedule;
• An unprecedented, hour by hour reconstruction of the duke’s reputationally disastrous three-day journey to New York and Boston, together with references to official letters, itineraries and flight instances;
• How the duke requested the usage of a Bentley in New York;
• How key new sources have questioned whether or not the duke attended all his scheduled appointments on the journey;
• How a Scotland Yard bodyguard insists that Epstein, Maxwell and Virginia had left New York for the tycoon’s personal island within the Caribbean when the duke stayed at his paedophile pal’s place on the third evening of the journey.

On Saturday – within the first a part of our unique four-part sequence on the case – we uncovered new doubts over the prince’s extraordinary ‘alibi’ that he was at a celebration at Pizza Express in Woking, Surrey on the day he allegedly first slept with Miss Roberts in London. We revealed that in keeping with a household diary, the duke had booked a manicure at dwelling on the afternoon he says he dropped off Princess Beatrice on the occasion and that neither she nor the occasion hosts can recall if he attended.

But our investigation additionally raised questions concerning the accuracy of Miss Roberts’ claims that she went clubbing in London with the duke that night and her description of the tub tub the place she says they later had intercourse.

The Mail requested Andrew’s spokesman a sequence of questions on his journey to New York in April 2001 and the allegations made by Miss Roberts.

A spokesman for the duke stated: ‘It wouldn’t be acceptable to touch upon any of those issues.’

Miss Roberts’s representatives in New York haven’t responded to repeated requests to remark.

Prince’s ‘personal time’… simply as Virginia flew in

• THE CLAIM: Andrew met 17-year-old lady for intercourse in Epstein’s New York mansion
• THE DENIAL: He insists it couldn’t have occurred
• THE BOMBSHELL: Royal paperwork present he had 3-hour window

Monday, April 9, 2001, noticed a day of maximum climate throughout New York City. Lowering skies, thunder, lightning and hailstones ‘the dimensions of dimes’, one observer famous. It would show a suitably sulphurous and doom-laden backdrop to the arrival on the town that lunchtime of Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, aboard British Airways Flight 175 from Heathrow.

The limousine of his selection was ready at JFK airport to whisk His Royal Highness to Her Majesty’s Consul General’s palatial residence, simply yards from Central Park. This could be the Duke’s sleeping quarters for the primary evening of a three-day working go to to the United States’ jap seaboard.

Long within the planning, the official schedule went ‘like clockwork’, considered one of his occasion remembers. Alas, a royal spanner was to search out its method into these works. The Duke had made numerous private preparations to suit round his formal duties. Once in Manhattan and left to his personal gadgets, the cumulative proof suggests it had not taken lengthy for Andrew to place himself. in a compromising state of affairs, which has brought about. critical hurt to his fame.

An essential factor of that proof, which might be revealed by the Mail right now, are the 2 phrases which seem on the confidential and – till now – unpublished official itinerary which was faxed from royal workplaces in London to the consul normal’s group 4 days earlier.

They point out the Duke’s intentions for the 5 hours between 1.45pm, when his airplane touched down at JFK, and 6.45pm, when he was to go away the Residence to go to a proper dinner.

Those two phrases are ‘Private Time’ – lasting from 2.30pm to five.30pm. Given the date and site and the intense allegations made towards him, this in any other case innocuous phrase is now loaded with significance, if not hazard.

A MODERN-DAY MEPHISTOPHELES

What occurred throughout these ‘personal’ hours? The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) would definitely prefer to know. The complete world want to know. It is a global trigger célèbre.

The Queen’s second – and a few say favorite – son had at all times appreciated the Big Apple. While typically brusque with and suspicious of strangers, and jealous of his personal hereditary standing and entitlements, Andrew loved escaping from the extreme scrutiny, formality and protocol which surrounded him in Commonwealth nations.

But he had a specific purpose to look ahead to this journey: his burgeoning friendship with an obscure however extraordinarily beneficiant and laid-back Wal l Street billionaire named Jeffrey Epstein.

Epstein occurred to personal the most important townhouse in Manhattan. Covering seven flooring and 28,000 sq. ft of the Upper East

Side, the mansion’s comforts and amenities had been much more in depth and significantly much less stuffy – amongst its decor, prosthetic breasts wobbling on the lavatory partitions – than these of the consul normal’s Residence.

Five years divorced from Sarah, the Duchess of York, and nearing the tip of a not undistinguished army profession, this midlife Duke aged 41 was about to enter a brand new epoch, alone. With the approaching retirement from the function by the Duke of Kent, Andrew had been anointed by his mom to grow to be the UK’s subsequent Special Representative for International Trade and Investment.

Sources say he felt he wanted to discover a mentor, properly versed in what was to him the alien world of massive enterprise; somebody exterior the Buckingham Palace ‘”yes, sir, no sir,” bubble’, as one acquaintance describes it.

What he received was not a information, however a modern-day Mephistopheles.

It could be an understatement to say that his Epstein connection got here again to hang-out Andrew .

The relationship – and all it allegedly entailed – would finally see the Duke banished from public life and going through calls for, as he does right now, to undergo

Department Of Justice questioning in a sensational case which sprang from the paedophi le Epstein’s voracious urge for food for underage ladies.

The Duke will not be a suspect of their inquiries, so far as the Mail is conscious, however the U.S. authorities consider he’s a probably important witness of their investigation into Epstein and others’ prison actions.

Epstein could be jailed in 2008 after admitting he had procured two such ladies for the aim of prostitution. Having secured a secret ‘sweetheart deal of the century’ with federal prosecutors, the f inancier served solely 13 months, a lot of which was spent on day launch.

But the claims of his accusers – of whom there have been dozens – wouldn’t go away. The case was reopened and in July 2019 Epstein was rearrested on suspicion of additional paedophile-related offence. S.

On August 10, 2019, whereas on remand in New York, he hanged himself. in his jail cell. Epstein is now past the attain of public accusations and prison investigation. His former pal, the Prince, will not be. And in Virginia Roberts he faces considered one of Epstein’s abused victims and an accuser of singular dedication and need to see him delivered to some type of official account.

She claims that the Duke had intercourse along with her on three events after she had been trafficked for that goal by Epstein, twice whereas she was nonetheless aged 17.

The Duke of York emphatically denies having had any sexual relations with Miss Roberts or any minor. His advisers transient that he can be exonerated and in a position to return to public life. That stays to be seen. His inventory at the moment stays within the basement.

But in a forensic investigation over a number of months, the Mail has uncovered never-before-seen paperwork, heard a number of new testimonies and thrown new mild and element on essential episodes.

We have examined the gaps, contradictions and lack of recall within the Duke’s narrative in addition to the consistency of Miss Roberts’ personal to this point broadly accepted claims; not least their thus-far unexplained variances and anomalies which inevitably could be severely examined if ever introduced in a courtroom of regulation.

On Saturday, within the first a part of this sequence, we examined the particulars of their first alleged encounter, in London on Saturday, March 10, 2001.

We uncovered troubling questions over the Duke’s alibi for his actions that day, specifically relating to his supposed journey to drop his eldest daughter Beatrice off at a celebration held within the Woking department of Pizza Express.

We additionally spoke to witnesses whose testimony throws new mild on claims he and Miss Roberts had danced at Tramp nightclub, earlier than returning to Ghislaine Maxwell’s Knightsbridge mews home, the place an notorious image was taken of the pair of them an image which the Duke’s supporters really feel might be faux.

Today, we transfer on to their second alleged encounter, through the Duke of York’s go to to the United States in April 2001, and new findings as tantalising as they’re troubling.

ONLY A BENTLEY WILL DO FOR HRH

The Duke’s journey to New York that Easter Week didn’t concern the boosting of UK commerce. He wouldn’t take up his envoy function till he formally left the Royal Navy that July. Rather he was travelling in his capability because the chairman of trustees of the Outward Bound Trust (OBT).

This academic charity was began in 1941 by the founding father of the Duke’s previous boarding faculty, Gordonstoun. It had a major presence within the United States.

But it could be costly, each to the OBT and the British taxpayer. The Duke didn’t journey economic system class. He didn’t journey with out an entourage, which included his two-man safety element.

Confidential official papers seen by the Mail exhibit how the go to was micro-managed.

The Duke was to be picked up at his then dwelling, Sunninghill Park, at 10am on April 9. ‘Dress: swimsuit’, says the itinerary, which the Mail has had sight of .

He would arrive to at Heathrow at 10.35am. The BA flight would go away half an hour later. No queuing for the Duke.

Andrew could be accompanied on the outward leg by three followers, two of whom had been Army officers. The extra senior was Major General Sir Michael Hobbs, the Director of the Outward Bound Trust.

Sir Michael’s household was steeped in royal service; his grandmother had been a lady-in-waiting to Queen Mary, wi fe of King George V. The junior officer was Captain Richard Dilworth of the Royal Engineers. A bluff Lancastrian, Dilworth was the Duke’s private equerry .

The third member of the occasion was the Duke’s senior Personal Protection Officer (PPO), a Metropolitan policeman of inspector rank whom we will name Policeman A .

Another PPO, a sergeant – Policeman B – had flown to New York the day earlier than to conduct the second of two ‘recces’ for the go to. Both law enforcement officials’ prices had been paid for by the Metropolitan Police, confidential paperwork verify.

The bills of the Duke and Sir Michael had been paid for by the charity, in keeping with different papers we have now seen.

There had been different issues. In a fax despatched to Louise Redmond, the New York Consulate General’s visits officer, a royal aide had addressed the Duke’s mode of transport whereas in New York. HRH needed a suitably high-status and British – reasonably than American – automobile.

‘(Policeman B) requested if I may verify what automobile the Duke of York want to use in New York,’ the aide wrote.

‘His Royal Highness has stated the Bentley or no matter is acceptable. To that finish, I might suggest {that a} Jaguar or related may be acceptable however not a Lincoln Town Car.

‘Outward Bound will present a second automobile and driver for (the equerry) and Sir Michael an’I might be grateful if you happen to may present a driver for the Duke of York’s automobile.’

The Duke received his Bentley. Ms Redmond was at JFK airport to greet the royal occasion, together with Bill Phillips, chairman of promoting large Ogilvy and Mather and head of Outward Bound International. Mr Phillips was to be the Duke’s official host.

The Bentley took the Duke to the Residence at No 4, East 66th Street. His baggage and entourage adopted in two different autos.

The sleeping preparations – the residence had 5 bedrooms together with the consul normal’s private quarters – had been set out in one other fax from throughout the Atlantic.

‘On the night of ninth April 2001, HRH and a Personal Protection Officer will definitely be staying on the Residence,’ it said. ‘The third room can be taken both by (Capt Dilworth) or Sir Michael. (Captain Dilworth could be the one to lose out).

‘I might be grateful if you happen to may safe two resort rooms regionally for the 2 members of the Royal Party who should not staying on the Residence.

‘I’m wondering if it could be potential for your entire occasion to have breakfast on the Residence on the morning of tenth April 2001, as it will primarily be a working breakfast.’

On arrival on the Residence the Duke’s equerry busied himself with unpacking Andrew’s baggage. Meanwhile, his senior safety officer went buying in downtown Manhattan for an Apple Mac laptop with the son of the consul normal, we perceive he remembers.

But what of the Duke? How did he spend his designated ‘Private Time’ that afternoon and early night?

TEENAGE GIRLS ON EPSTEIN’S JET

First, we should look at one other probably important air motion which happened that very same day.

According to the logbook of 1 David Rodgers, Flight 1488 had taken off from Palm Beach International airport. Mr Rodgers was Epstein’s major pilot. The Gulfstream enterprise jet he was flying that Monday belonged to the tycoon.

His logbook about which Mr Rodgers has been questioned beneath oath – means that the passengers aboard Flight 1488 included Epstein, Virginia

Roberts, a teenage lady referred to as Banu and a younger lady named ‘Joann’.

The latter would seem like Johanna Sjoberg, then 21, who whereas at school in Florida had allegedly been recruited by Maxwell to work as a ‘masseuse’ for Epstein.

The logbook exhibits the airplane landed at Atlantic City, New Jersey, then took off once more – Flight 1489 – for the brief hop to its ultimate vacation spot, Teterboro Airport, additionally in New Jersey.

Teterboro is a favoured New York space hub for personal jet visitors. It is unclear from the out there information when Flight 1488 left Palm Beach, however a typical direct flight to New York takes little greater than two hours. Teterboro Airport is lower than 15 miles by highway from the Epstein mansion.

What occurred subsequent? As we will see, an alleged sexual encounter bizarrely involving a Spitting Image puppet … of the Duke himself.

His journey to the puppet grasp’s mansion… this time for the evening 

After Jeffrey Epstein had admitted in courtroom in 2007 to professional curing underage ladies,

Johanna Sjoberg instructed a Sunday newspaper of an alleged encounter with the Duke on the East 71st Street mansion at ‘Easter 2001’. She had been requested by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to go to New York.

She recalled that she returned to the residence after some ‘sight seeing’ and ‘Prince Andrew was there and a few different ladies my age. Andrew was very charming… She (Ghislaine) got here down with a gift for him – a latex puppet of him from Spitting Image.’

She added: ‘We had an image taken. Virginia, one other lady there, sat on a chair and had the puppet on her lap. Andrew sat on one other chair.

‘I sat on his lap – and he put his hand on my breast. Ghislaine put the puppet’s hand on Virginia’s breast. Then Andrew put his hand on mine. It was an excellent joke. Everybody laughed… Ghislaine… had a really soiled sense of humour.’

This was the Duke on the planet of Jeffrey Epstein earlier than the arrival of #MeToo.

Ms Sjoberg recalled this episode once more in a deposition she gave beneath oath in 2016. Only fragments of this testimony have been launched into the general public area, however the similarity is evident.

Ms Sjoberg stated the Duke had thought the puppet ‘humorous as a result of it was him’.

Then ‘I simply bear in mind somebody suggesting a photograph and so they instructed us to get on the sofa. And so Virginia and Andrew sat on the sofa and so they put the puppet on her lap.

‘And so I sat on Andrew’s lap, I consider of my very own volition, and so they took the puppet’s palms and put it on Virginia’s breast and so Andrew put his on mine.’ It was all completed in ‘a joking method’.

According to her accounts, the Duke, whereas being inappropriately tactile to say the least, had not brought about offence. She had sat on the lap of this well-known stranger of her personal volition. She thought him ‘charming’.

But what took the alleged encounter into a complete new sphere had been the following testimonies of Virginia Roberts.

In interviews with a Sunday newspaper in 2011, her unpublished memoir written in the identical yr, a deposition beneath oath given in 2015 and varied later TV interviews, she corroborated Ms Sjoberg’s ‘Spitting Image’ story (although on Panorama she says the puppet was put towards Johanna’s breast reasonably than her personal).

But she additionally went on to say that after the puppet {photograph} interlude she and Andrew retired to a therapeutic massage room – ‘the dungeon’ – the place they’d intercourse. She claims they’d first had intercourse in London, a month earlier than this.

Miss Roberts has beforehand stated, ‘You are left with a foggy reminiscence generally, you actually are,’ and, ‘I may be fallacious on dates completely and I may be fallacious on locations even, generally.’

Given the size of time that has elapsed since these alleged incidents, that’s solely pure.

However within the deposition she stated: ‘I had intercourse with Prince Andrew … in Epstein’s New York mansion in spring 2001. I used to be 17 on the time. Epstein referred to as me all the way down to his workplace. When I received there Epstein was there, together with Maxwell, Johanna Sjoberg and Andy. I used to be very shocked to see him once more. Epstein and Maxwell had been making lewd jokes about ‘Randy Andy’. ‘I had the impression that Andy had come there to see Epstein and to have intercourse with me. There was no obvious goal for Andy to be there.’

She stated Epstein paid her $400 for this service.

None of those accounts recommend a time of day for the alleged encounter. But one other, unlikely, alleged impartial eyewitness has simply come ahead to go some strategy to corroborating the puppet story.

Steve Wright, a 55 yr previous puppeteer from Yorkshire, says he met the Duke at a Buckingham Palace reception in 2003. When he instructed Andrew what he did, the Duke allegedly stated: ‘Oh my God, puppets! Spitting Image – are you aware that my pal purchased my Spitting Image puppet and you may by no means consider it, he performed a trick on me’.

Wright defined: ‘The Prince instructed me he went to an residence in New York and noticed the “bloody thing” sitting up on the couch and that he “nearly had a bloody heart attack” as he was there taking a look at himself.’

The Epstein mansion was solely six minutes’ stroll through Fifth Avenue, from the consul normal’s Residence.

It was not forbidden for the Duke to be on the Epstein mansion. Nor even noteworthy on the time. Epstein was nonetheless a person of apparently spotless character. He was additionally an excellent pal and mentor of the Duke. Why would not the Duke pop over to see Epstein throughout his ‘Private Time’? Why in any other case would they contrive to overlook one another given the chance?

When requested by Emily Maitlis on Newsnight about Ms Sjoberg’s account, the Duke even appeared to concede he may need visited.

Maitlis: ‘There was a witness there, Johanna Sjoberg, who says you probably did go to the home in that month.’

Duke: ‘I most likely did … due to what I used to be doing, I used to be staying with the consul normal which is additional down the road on Fifth so I wasn’t … I wasn’t staying there. I could have visited however positively did not, positively, positively no, no, no exercise.’

Maitlis did not press the purpose additional. Which was good for the Duke. Because inside that stumbling reply we will reveal he had made no less than one assertion which was patently inaccurate.

The Duke’s schedule over the following 36 hours was filled with formal duties. That night he was ‘escorted’ by his safety element and equerry from the Residence to a dinner on the five-star Mark Hotel, 5 hundred yards past the Epstein mansion alongside Fifth Avenue. The Duke’s host was Bill Phillips, head of Outward Bound International.

Afterwards he was escorted again to the Residence by Policeman A and stayed the evening there. The Mail understands this has been confirmed by his safety element.

The following morning after breakfast the itinerary exhibits the Duke was to go away for ‘The School for the Physical City’, the place he was scheduled to be met by Richard Stopol, director of the New York Outward Bound Schools.

There adopted a two-hour tour of the amenities and additional discussions with Mr Stopol, earlier than the Duke left for lunch on the New York Times constructing, hosted by Arthur Sultzberger, chairman and writer of the newspaper. The Duke then met one other Outward Bound patron referred to as Charlie Stetson earlier than leaving for LaGuardia Airport. At 4.30pm, he and his full entourage departed for Boston.

He spent a lot of the subsequent 24 hours at an Outward Bound facility on an island in the midst of Boston harbour. There are numerous images which help this. By 4.30pm on April 11 his formal duties with Outward Bound had been discharged.

According to sources, Sir Michael Hobbs and Captain Dilworth raised glasses of Guinness in one of many metropolis’s many Irish pubs to toast the ‘nice success’ – as they noticed it – of the royal go to, earlier than they caught a night flight again to London.

Such is hubris. Because the Duke wasn’t going dwelling with them. In truth, he and his PPOs had been already heading again to New York on Flight DL1841. The Duke paid for his personal ticket this time as a result of he was not ‘working’.

In truth, he was about to exhibit simply how shut he was to Epstein. The Mail can reveal that regardless of his denial through the Newsnight interview, Andrew did spend the evening of April 11 on the Epstein mansion.

In a fax despatched from London shortly earlier than his journey, a royal aide states solely that ‘His Royal Highness will return to New York on the night of eleventh April after his go to to Boston. He will spend that night at a non-public deal with in New York and can depart for Miami the next day’.

That ‘personal deal with’ was 9, East 71st Street, sources near the Duke have conceded. Epstein’s mansion. They say that HRH and Policeman A had been alone there, aside from home employees. They insist that Epstein, Maxwell and Roberts had already left the town earlier than the Duke arrived.

The Mail understands that Policeman A has confirmed this account and added that he stayed in his ‘ordinary’ visitor bed room on the fourth ground – an intriguing phrase in itself – with the Duke in a room close by. (It is price recalling that the Duke has admitted staying with Epstein in New York in 2010, the ultimate time they met).

David Rodgers’ pilot log additionally means that Flight 1490 left Teterboro Airport for St Thomas within the American Virgin Islands, the closest touchdown floor to Epstein’s personal island, on April 11.

On board had been Epstein, Maxwell, Banu, Virginia Roberts and Ms Sjoberg. The logbook doesn’t say when the flight left New York.

RIDDLE OF THE MISSING MEMORIES

So are there different witnesses who can testify to the Duke’s whereabouts? The Mail has discovered Captain Dilworth despatched a well mannered letter to Bill Phillips, head of Outward Bound International, dated April 30, 2001, thanking him for his hospitality.

Mr Phillips died two years in the past. But approached by the Mail this week his widow Barbara had no recollection of him mentioning any such royal go to: ‘I might have identified if he had dined at The Mark, not to mention with an English prince.

He would have delighted in telling me as we often mentioned his work and Outward Bound.

‘He met a whole lot of well-known individuals and there are many pictures of him with these individuals. But none with the Prince.’

While there’s pictorial proof that the Prince attended Outward Bound occasions in Boston, Richard Stopol, who’s the present CEO of Outward Bound New York and was resulting from have hosted the Duke within the metropolis on that second morning, equally stated he could not bear in mind Andrew visiting at Easter 2001. ‘Neither I nor some other NYC Outward Bound Schools employees met with Prince Andrew or had been even conscious that he was visiting New York City,’ he stated.

He then checked with the person who was principal of The School for the Physical City in 2001.

Mr Stopol reported: ‘He’s a pal and we converse often and I used to be intrigued. I believed it was my reminiscence which was failing, however he does not recall this go to both.’

More bizarrely nonetheless, Tom Harris, UK Consul General in 2001, cannot recall a go to by the Duke that Easter. Nor may two of his three deputy consuls. Louise Redmond, the New York Consulate General’s visits officer, continues to be in submit.

It was virtually 20 years in the past. Memories are hazy. Though not as hazy because the Duke’s has been.

The Mail requested representatives of Andrew a sequence of questions concerning the allegations made by Miss Roberts. A spokesman for the Duke stated: ‘It wouldn’t be acceptable to touch upon any of those issues.’

However, the Mail understands that the Duke now remembers he stayed on the Epstein mansion that third evening to ‘save taxpayers’ cash’ reasonably than keep at a resort, whereas on his strategy to be part of the Duchess and their two daughters for a household vacation within the Bahamas.

The a number of tons of of kilos ‘saved’ pales compared to the tons of of hundreds to this point paid in authorized and consultancy charges and the reputational disaster to him and the Royal Family that his relationship with Epstein has brought about.

Mystery of first Epstein assembly: Andrew says it was ‘some time in 2000’. So why did prime lawyer recommend it was no less than a yr earlier? 

So when did the Duke and the person whose pal ship would value him so expensive first come into contact? Here, too, there are peculiar inconsistencies.

The Mail has been instructed by one very properly positioned supply that Andrew believes his first -ever assembly with Jeffrey Epstein happened over a lunch on the famend Four Seasons restaurant within the Seagram Building on East 52nd Street, Manhattan, ‘someday in 2000’.

The occasion was notable in a single different element. ‘It was the one time the Duke ever noticed Epstein carrying a swimsuit,’ the supply stated. ‘He invariably frolicked in trainers, hoodies and sweatshirts. Rather a slob.’

For as soon as, Epstein had dressed to impress. This was a possibility so as to add a needy British prince to his spectacular assortment of former U.S. presidents, Hollywood stars, Silicon Valley hotshots, celeb legal professionals and scientists who loved flights on his enterprise jet and visits to his personal Caribbean island, New Mexico ranch and mansions in New York and Palm Beach.

The supply stated the introduction was organized not by the Duke’s ex -wife, the Duchess of York, as has typically been reported, however by Epstein’s then -girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, whom the Duke had identified since she was an Oxford beneath graduate within the Eighties.

Ms Maxwell is at the moment remanded in custody within the U.S. charged with aiding Epstein in his offences and perjury. She faces 35 years in jail if convicted however denies all the allegations.

The supply stated: ‘It was a wholly straight ahead first assembly, which happened as a result of the Duke was migrating from the Navy to his ambassadorial function with UK commerce. And he did not know a lot about enterprise.

‘So he put the phrase out to these whom he thought of to be pals: “If you know any high -powered business people who I might be able to learn from then please put me in touch with them.”

‘And in fact Ghislaine Maxwell was considered one of his pals, there isn’t a denying that; considered one of his oldest pals, as a lot as anybody might be pals with senior members of the Royal Family. And she was courting Epstein at that stage.

‘So that was the genesis of their first assembly. It was a response from Ghislaine Maxwell to his request for assist. The Duchess had nothing to do with it. She and Maxwell have by no means seen eye to eye. They have by no means appreciated one another. Maxwell was the Duke’s sole hyperlink to Jeffrey Epstein.’

The Duke’s recollection that he and Epstein first met in 2000 is arguably typical of his obscure grasp of element regarding occasions key to the intense allegations towards him.

This carelessness makes his group of disaster managers and authorized advisers, headed by the formidable Clare Montgomery QC, cautious of submitting him to U.S. Department of Justice calls for for face -to-face interviews in London or New York.

His disastrous efficiency 13 months in the past on BBC Newsnight was warning sufficient that the Duke lacked emotional intelligence and was insufficiently ‘mentally agile’, as one acquaintance termed it, to be placed on the spot, nonetheless blame much less his historical past. His reminiscence is woeful, apparently.

So how does his recall of the primary assembly with Epstein try?

Certainly, Andrew was picture graphed within the firm of Epstein and Maxwell at an occasion at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida in February 2000. Before the yr was out the couple had been the Duke’s company at a Sandringham capturing weekend.

Another attendee who spoke to the Mail described Maxwell as being as animated as Epstein was monosyllabic. But there are different accounts which recommend the Duke and Epstein met sooner than 2000 – no less than as early as 1999.

The Duke’s title seems on flight logs for considered one of Epstein’s plane in February 1999, together with a former Miss Russia referred to as Anna Malova. (However, the accuracy of those passenger manifests has been questioned on numerous events).

Then this summer time, the New York Post quoted a ‘pal’ of Maxwell’s who claimed that it was not Ghislaine however the businesswoman and socialite Lynn Forester de Rothschild who launched Andrew to Epstein, at a celebration within the Hamptons in July 1999. Perhaps one other indicator of an introduction predating 2000 – and the motive behind it – is a letter which the Duke allegedly wrote to Epstein’s lawyer Alan Dershowitz. It was to thank Dershowitz for having given him a tour of the Harvard Law School Library. The letter was dated September 30, 1999.

Dershowitz, whom Miss Roberts has additionally accused of getting had underage intercourse along with her – which he furiously denies – has reproduced the textual content in his autobiography.

Andrew allegedly wrote to him: ‘I look ahead to persevering with my mental problem with you and Jeffrey E within the coming months.’ Dershowitz commented: ‘He clearly regarded to Jeffrey Epstein as any person who may educate him, whether or not in issues of finance or anything, I do not know.’

Given the persevering with haziness of his reminiscence, the way to exhibit a transparent and convincing recall of previous occasions was not a part of the Duke’s Epstein tutorials, it could seem.

PART THREE

Duke delayed household holidays to occasion with Epstein: These unique footage present Andrew within the Bahamas together with his daughters. Now our probe reveals the bombshell 48 hours he was on paedophile’s island WITH teen intercourse accuser simply days earlier 

A doting father and his two daughters are stress-free within the Caribbean sunshine.

These never-before-published images present Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, with Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, then aged 12 and 11, on vacation within the Bahamas within the week following Easter Sunday, 2001.

They had been taken by the Duchess, the youngsters’s mom. Almost ten years after their vibrant separation and 5 years after divorce, the Duke and Duchess of York sought to keep up the cohesion of their household unit.

But all will not be because it seems.

Charming as they’re, the Bahamian swimming pool footage recommend nothing of the calamitous misadventure into which the Duke had simply plunged; one which might see him — finally — banished from public life and needed for questioning by the U.S. Department of Justice, as he’s right now.

At finest Andrew was within the thrall of a disastrous affiliation with a stranger whom he didn’t then know to be a predatory paedophile. At worst? Well, the Duke is accused of being supplied with a sexually trafficked 17-year-old lady for his private gratification.

That lady, now a lady, is Virginia Roberts. She has claimed and continues to say that a few week earlier than these vacation photos had been taken, the Queen’s second son had intercourse along with her within the therapeutic massage room of the most important townhouse in New York. Miss Roberts was then 17. She is at some point lower than 5 years older than Princess Beatrice.

The mansion on East 71st Street belonged to the billionaire Wall Street financier Jeffrey Epstein, whom Andrew had entertained at a Sandringham capturing weekend the earlier December. Miss Roberts says it was Epstein who trafficked her throughout state strains so she may ‘service’ the Duke.

For his half, the Duke emphatically denies ever having had sexual relations with Miss Roberts or any minor. He says he can not bear in mind even having met her.

But as a sufferer of Epstein, her testimony has arguably been given weight by the existence of one other {photograph}. This was allegedly taken in London in March 2001, and seems to indicate the Duke together with his arm round his American accuser. She says they’d posed minutes earlier than the primary of the three events they’d intercourse collectively.

Yesterday, within the second a part of a ground-breaking Mail investigation into Miss Roberts’s allegations towards Andrew, we set out in unprecedented element the Duke’s ‘working go to’ to New York and Boston on behalf of the charity the Outward Bound Trust, throughout Easter week 2001.

We revealed that the Duke and his senior police Personal Protection Officer (PPO) had spent the third evening of the journey at Epstein’s mansion, regardless of Andrew’s denial of getting completed so throughout his disastrous BBC Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis final yr.

We additionally proved that the hole in his busy official itinerary — put aside for ‘Private Time’ — may have allowed him to satisfy Miss Roberts at Epstein’s mansion two days earlier.

It was round this time she alleges the second sexual episode between them happened.

Today, utilizing sources in Florida and the Caribbean, beforehand unseen official paperwork and new eyewitness accounts, we will present that the Duke’s calamitous errors of judgment throughout this journey didn’t finish in New York.

Immediately after leaving the town, Andrew tore up long-standing official journey preparations involving Buckingham Palace, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Metropolitan Police — to delay and foreshorten his household vacation within the Bahamas.

This was completed with a view to comply with Epstein to Little St James, the tycoon’s personal island 1,000 miles to the south-east.

There, the Duke and his PPO spent 48 hours amid what one eyewitness has described as a ‘weekend-long occasion’, as helicopters consistently flew out and in with different Epstein company.

Flight logs recommend that Epstein, his then girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, Miss Roberts, and one other younger feminine ‘masseuse’ Andrew had allegedly simply met in New York had flown to the island forward of the Duke. Maxwell had organized the brand new journey plans of each the Duke and his PPO, the Mail has been instructed.

Miss Roberts has claimed that the third time she and the Duke had intercourse was throughout an orgy on Little St James that yr.

The Mail’s newest revelations heap extra embarrassment upon the embattled Duke.

His personal recollection of those key occasions stays obscure and, to many, unconvincing. Yet these near him argue that he was then a single man within the grip of a ‘traditional midlife disaster’, who had pursued a string of clearly mature 20, 30 and 40-something girls — not a paedophile like Epstein, who dedicated suicide whereas on remand in a New York state jail in August 2019.

While on Little St James at Easter 2001, sources say, the Duke’s curiosity lay not in a juvenile lady however in a gorgeous middle-aged financier, whose personal account appears to help this declare.

His PPO, who stored a day by day diary, additionally claims to have seen nothing which gave him trigger for concern about his principal’s conduct on the island, the Mail understands.

In truth, in keeping with sources, the policeman who was at Andrew’s facet for 15 years says he doesn’t recall ever having seen Miss Roberts.

There is little doubt she, like dozens of others, was a sufferer of the monster Epstein. Nor that Andrew’s public persona is straightforward to dislike.

His character was formed from start by institutional privilege and arcane protocol. He not too long ago instructed an acquaintance: ‘The first individual I can bear in mind assembly from exterior my rapid household first referred to as me ‘Your Royal Highness’ after which ‘Sir’. And that was once I was on the age of 4.’

Much of the brand new circumstantial proof the Mail investigation has uncovered can be distinctly unhelpful to the Duke’s case.

It doesn’t argue that he’s a person of excellent judgment; fairly the other, in actual fact.

Yet his supporters will likely argue {that a} man can nonetheless be silly, sleazy, abrasive and entitled — briefly, unlikeable — with out additionally being an abuser of trafficked teenage ladies. That is one thing else fully — and is infinitely extra critical.

There is an additional consideration. During the course of the Mail’s investigations, questions have emerged concerning the precision of Miss Roberts’s recollection of a few of the alleged occasions that concern the Duke, not least what did or didn’t occur on Little St James in 2001.

A SUDDEN CHANGE OF TRAVEL PLANS

On April 5, 2001, a royal aide faxed a letter to Cynthia Gibbs, the Secretary to the Governor General of the Bahamas.

The Mail has seen a replica of this correspondence. It reads: ‘As it’s possible you’ll already bear in mind, the Duke of York can be visiting the Bahamas from twelfth April to 18th April 2001. He can be arriving in Nassau at 1648 on twelfth April 2001 on Flight AA5315 from Miami.

‘He can be accompanied by his Personal Protection Officer Inspector *****. After arriving in Nassau, he intends to affix the Duchess of York and Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie.’

That similar day the royal aide despatched one other fax to the workplace of the UK consul normal in New York. The Duke was to remain on the consul’s Residence by Central Park on the evening of his first arrival within the metropolis — April 9. He would then transfer on to Boston earlier than returning to New York for an evening at what was discreetly described as a ‘personal residence’ (in actual fact, Epstein’s mansion).

At situation was the maintain baggage the Duke had delivered to America for his Bahamian vacation.

‘His Royal Highness can be travelling on to the Bahamas with (his senior PPO),’ the royal aide instructed the consulate official. ‘I might be grateful if you happen to may organise for the (vacation) baggage to be moved to the Residence, and I’m wondering if it may be potential for it to be saved there through the go to to New York and Boston after which returned to JFK (airport) to be loaded on to the flight to Nassau on twelfth April?’

So all was set, so far as the Consulate General in New York and the Governor General’s workplace in Nassau had been involved. The Duke and his senior PPO could be arriving in Nassau on April 12.

Only they would not, as we will reveal.

The Mail’s investigations present, definitively, that the pair did certainly fly from New York to Miami on that day. But they didn’t catch the connecting AA5315 flight to Nassau, as was deliberate.

Instead, it seems that the Duke stayed the evening of April 12 in Florida — very probably at Epstein’s pink stucco mansion in Palm Beach (the place Miss Roberts, who was then underage, claims she was first requested to present the tycoon an ‘erotic’ therapeutic massage).

Meanwhile, his senior PPO flew on to Little St James to conduct a safety ‘recce’ prematurely of his boss’s arrival there.

It is unclear whether or not the police officer glided by personal jet or scheduled flight. But it’s understood that the brand new journey preparations had been made by the Duke’s previous pal Ghislaine Maxwell, who’s at the moment on remand within the U.S. charged with aiding Epstein in sex-trafficking and perjury. She denies any wrongdoing.

Documents seen by the Mail present that the Duke adopted his bodyguard to Epstein’s island the next day, Good Friday, April 13. Again it’s unclear how he travelled.

Logs made by Epstein’s private pilot, David Rodgers, recommend that on April 11 he flew the tycoon’s Gulfstream enterprise jet from Teterboro Airport, close to New York, to St Thomas within the U.S. Virgin Islands. This is the closest airport to Little St James.

The passenger manifest for Flight 1490 lists Epstein, Maxwell, Miss Roberts, one other feminine teenager referred to as Banu and a 21-year-old lady referred to as Johanna Sjoberg.

In 2007 — some years earlier than Miss Roberts went public along with her allegations towards the Duke — Miss Sjoberg would say that she met Andrew on the Epstein mansion that Easter week. She repeated this declare in authorized deposition in May 2016.

She had sat on his lap ‘of my very own volition’ for a photograph to be taken with Miss Roberts, the Duke and a Spitting Image puppet in his likeness.

The Duke had put a hand on her breast as they posed, she stated. But this was completed in a ‘joking’ method and Andrew had been ‘charming’, she stated.

And so by Good Friday 2001, the primary characters from Andrew’s alleged sexual rendezvous at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion had been gathered once more, this time in a brand new and extra unique location.

But there’s one other title which might be added to the dramatis personae: Gwendolyn Beck.

Still glamorous at 62, she will not be solely an funding knowledgeable and creator of the e book Flirting With Finance, however was as soon as a would-be U.S. senator.

She can be central to the mire of allegations towards the Duke of York and what did, or did not, happen between him and the teenage Virginia Roberts on Jeffrey Epstein’s Caribbean island.

Last yr, it was urged that Miss Beck — who was 42 in early 2001— could have met the Duke there, based mostly on her title showing on a flight log and her personal transient reported feedback.

Her presence on Little St James at Easter 2001 has now been verified conclusively by the Mail’s investigations.

Miss Beck instructed a New York-based journalist in 2015, in beforehand unpublished electronic mail correspondence: ‘I used to handle cash for Mr Epstein once I labored at Morgan Stanley (1995), and had the good pleasure to satisfy Prince Andrew a number of instances.

‘After the enterprise relationship ended, I did not see both of them. Mr Epstein was sort sufficient to donate to my marketing campaign, however I by no means spoke with him (it is quite common within the U.S. for politicians to succeed in out to all the rich individuals they know).

‘The Prince was at all times charming, well mannered and a gentleman to me. Just cannot think about that is an correct story, in spite of everything prostitution is against the law within the U.S.

‘If I hadn’t been in love on the time, I actually would have given the Prince my quantity . . . really, is he single now?’

In one other electronic mail, she stated: ‘I am unable to think about the allegations relating to Prince Andrew are true — as I stated earlier than, he was a complete gentleman.

‘As I bear in mind, he arrived very late at evening (on Little St James) spent the following day/evening, and left early the next morning.

‘He was within the bungalow subsequent to me, and I heard no unusual noises or something uncommon. If something, he was flirting with me, however . . . I used to be in love with another person.

‘We did have a full of life dialog that day after the market closed (New York Stock Exchange) — I defined the 4 issues you are able to do along with your cash and what a ‘spinoff’ is. He stated: ‘Brilliant, you need to write a e book.’ And that’s how Flirting With Finance was born (which is why he’s thanked within the acknowledgements).’

She defined in an additional electronic mail to the identical journalist why she was reluctant to present them a full interview about her relationship with the Prince: ‘I’m afraid it could all backfire — am too like a personality out of a film . . . And, anybody trying on the flight logs would clearly see I used to be working.

‘It’s very unhappy the Press is so brutal to HRH, particularly unhappy for his daughters.’

Sources recommend Andrew was a lot taken with Miss Beck. She fitted his girlfriend archetype, in keeping with these near him then: lovely, buxom, intelligent. This week Miss Beck didn’t reply to requests for remark.

THE TROPICAL PARTY BREAKS UP

The flight logbook of Epstein’s pilot, David Rodgers, means that on April 16 — Easter Monday — Miss Beck left the U.S. Virgin Islands en route for Palm Beach, Florida, aboard Flight 1491, within the firm of Epstein, Maxwell, Miss Roberts and ‘Banu’.

Miss Sjoberg had already departed the island.

In her 2016 authorized deposition, she defined: ‘They put me on a industrial flight. I needed to be dwelling in time for Easter.’

The Mail can reveal that Andrew and his PPO had lastly set off to affix the Duke’s household within the Bahamas on Easter Sunday, April 15, virtually three days after they had been imagined to have arrived there. He might be pictured together with his daughters in that pool, finally.

The Little St James escapade exhibits the Duke in a really poor mild, as soon as once more.

What was his major motivation in diverting to Epstein’s hideaway reasonably than becoming a member of his household vacation on one other Caribbean island, as deliberate?

Was it the chance for business-related discussions as he ready to take up a brand new submit because the UK’s particular commerce envoy? Or was it merely a rampant libido?

Miss Roberts alleges that the third and ultimate time she had intercourse with Prince Andrew happened throughout an open-air orgy involving as many as eight different teenage ladies, on Little St James — not throughout this Easter break however later that yr.

It is probably probably the most stunning of her allegations towards him: the Duke allegedly plumbing the depths of his entitled depravity, in probably the most reckless of circumstances.

But deeper evaluation of what’s within the public area reveals as but unexplained inconsistencies in Miss Roberts’s accounts. Over the previous decade she has offered two variations of what seems to be the identical occasion. And these variations differ in a single essential respect: the participation of the Duke of York.

The orgy conundrum: A bunch of younger Russian ladies flown in… an erotic photoshoot that descended into debauchery. But the thriller? In one model of accuser’s an identical accounts, Duke is centre stage. In the opposite, he is not talked about 

By Richard Pendlebury and Stephen Wright

On May 3, 2016, Virginia Roberts was cross-examined in a U.S. courtroom, having introduced a defamation motion towards Ghislaine Maxwell, who had accused her of mendacity.

Maxwell’s lawyer requested her: ‘Again, is there a couple of reality, Miss Roberts?’

She replied: ‘No, there’s not a couple of reality.’

Not a couple of reality, maybe. But there’s generally a couple of model of an alleged occasion. And every now and then these variations can appear to range or evolve into a distinct state of affairs altogether.

In 2011, Miss Roberts wrote the draft of a private memoir. Titled The Billionaire Playboys’ Club, it describes her life from sexual abuse in childhood, homelessness and drug-taking in her teenage years, via being ‘recruited’ as an underage ‘intercourse slave’ by Epstein and Maxwell to her escape and redemptive marriage to her Australian husband, Rob Guiffre.

She provided the manuscript to no less than two U.S. literary brokers with a view to industrial publication. Her protecting letter to 1 New York agent, which has grow to be a authorized exhibit, learn: ‘I’m very critical about getting my e book printed and consider this story will cowl many genres of curiosity, not solely by these following the prolonged case, however additionally it is a lady’s story of glitz, glamour, sorrow, compassion and real love.’

In one other electronic mail to a journalist pal, she wrote: ‘I’m bringing down the home with this e book!’

The substance promised to be a publishing sensation — and a authorized minefield. She named distinguished individuals — together with Prince Andrew — who, she stated, had taken benefit of her sexually. The allegations had been ruinous to their reputations and may even land them in jail.

On pages 96-97, Miss Roberts describes one episode which, she stated, happened on Little St James days after her 18th birthday: August 9, 2001. It is price quoting at size for the needs of comparability.

She wrote that, over breakfast: ‘Jeffrey introduced that he was anticipating a number of company coming over with Brunel (Jean-Luc Brunel, a French mannequin company boss) no considered one of significance, simply his ordinary entourage of gorgeous ladies. Russian fashions this time, and Jeffrey was additionally having a photographer flown in to take modelling pictures utilizing the island as a background for a horny shoot . . .

‘We had been being photographed in subsequent to nothing . . . the extra provocative the extra Jeffrey and Brunel beloved it.’

She went on: ‘After the photoshoot we did some outside water sports activities . . . I knew it would not be lengthy earlier than we had been all intimate with one another. Being the one lady that spoke English was additionally an enormous blunder. The solely method we may talk was via hand gestures.’

Then: ‘After lunch on the seashore, we had been once more ushered into one other a part of the island, Jeffrey’s cabana. There was no want for phrases right here . . . Through glimpses in between our bodies crossing over me, I may see Jeffrey and Brunel watching us, sitting in a chair with their palms round their penises . . .’

“The best part is they don’t even speak English, so there’s never a need to keep them amused,” I may hear one of many males reveal and (I’m) fairly certain it got here from Jeffrey . . .’

A vivid description of a sequence of occasions, recalling element of contributors, areas, dialogue and aftermath. It is the one orgy described within the manuscript.

Now think about the testimony she gave beneath oath in January 2015.

‘The third time I had intercourse with Andy was in an orgy on Epstein’s personal island,’ she said.

‘I used to be round 18 on the time. Epstein, Andy, roughly eight different younger ladies, and I had intercourse collectively. The different ladies all gave the impression to be beneath the age of 18 and did not actually converse English. Epstein laughed concerning the truth they could not actually talk, saying that they’re the ‘best’ ladies to get together with. My assumption was that Jean-Luc Brunel received the ladies from Eastern Europe (as he procured many younger international ladies for Epstein). Afterwards all of us had dinner by the cabanas. The different ladies had been chatting away amongst themselves and Epstein and the Prince chatted collectively . . . Prince Andrew will need to have flown early the following morning.’

In April 2015, the Sunday newspaper which had reported her first interview in 2011, printed an up to date model. Her allegations of sexual encounters with the Duke that had been excised from the unique for authorized causes had been now included.

While on Epstein’s island ‘seven Russian ladies who did not converse a phrase of English turned up with a modelling agent’, Miss Roberts was reported to have stated.

‘Jeffrey was so excited. He stated: “We’re going to do a big photoshoot with you and the girls.” The agent took the images. They had been very provocative. We had been topless and he had us in sexual positions.

‘Then we had been instructed to assemble in a giant cabana. When I walked in, Andrew and Jeffrey had been seated in chairs. Jeffrey directed us with hand gestures. Jeffrey and the Prince had been laughing. The subsequent day, Andrew was gone.’

All three accounts have numerous putting similarities: the seven or eight Russian or East European ladies offered by Brunel; their lack of English; Epstein’s joke concerning the utility of the language barrier; the provocative photoshoot which degenerates into an orgy. It is definitely the identical occasion.

But within the first account, which seems in her memoir, the Duke merely doesn’t seem. Epstein’s voyeuristic, if not participatory, companion on the orgy is Brunel. In the 2 different variations the Brunel determine has grow to be the Duke.

The Mail requested Andrew’s spokesperson a sequence of questions on his journey to Little St James in April 2001 and the allegations made by Miss Roberts, however they stated: ‘It wouldn’t be acceptable to touch upon any of those issues.’

Miss Roberts’s representatives in New York haven’t responded to repeated requests to remark. She has been constant in alleging that she had intercourse with Andrew on three events.

In her 2015 authorized deposition — and numerous media interviews earlier than and since — she states that they’d intercourse first in London, then New York and eventually on the personal island of Little St James.

But probably the most detailed of all her accounts which might be within the public area — the memoir — means that the third occasion was not throughout an orgy on the island in any respect, however whereas she and the Prince had been alone at Epstein’s ranch in New Mexico.

If the Queen’s favorite son had participated in such a sensational occasion on Little St James, why did Miss Roberts not point out it in her manuscript?

Miss Roberts has conceded in an interview that ‘you’re left with a foggy reminiscence generally, you actually are’; and ‘I may be fallacious on dates completely and I may be fallacious on locations even, generally’.

During the 2016 cross-examination, Miss Roberts stated of her manuscript: ‘Just to make it identified, that is based mostly on true occasions.’ She conceded that there have been ‘a number of errors right here and there’.

Given that these occasions are alleged to have taken place virtually 20 years in the past, errors are pure. Memories fade.

Some traumatised persons are even susceptible to what’s termed ‘post-event info’ — together with media experiences distorting what they bear in mind. And authorized testimony given beneath oath will not be the identical as a memoir. Nonetheless, the variances in her story stay.

ENTER THE BUSTY ‘BRAIN SURGEON’  

The Duke’s Personal Protection Officer (PPO) says he by no means noticed Miss Roberts on the island throughout that April go to, nor anyplace else, sources have instructed the Mail.

But he did recall chatting with the resident housekeepers, a South African couple. Sources say that on account of the dialog, the bodyguard felt ‘one thing wasn’t fairly proper’ on the island.

In 2011, after they’d left Epstein’s make use of after his arrest, the housekeepers — Miles and Cathy Alexander — gave an interview to a Sunday newspaper.

They stated they hadn’t seen any orgies however there have been typically a whole lot of ladies there, some ‘very younger trying’ and scantily dressed who ‘regarded like they’d stepped out of an underwear catalogue’.

The Alexanders stated the Duke had first visited the island simply earlier than they took up their posts in February 1999, which tallies with flight logbook information which present him on an Epstein jet heading for the U.S. Virgin Islands that month.

The Duchess of York and Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie had additionally stayed there, they stated.

Now retired again in South Africa, the couple declined to remark additional when approached by the Mail this week. Mr Alexander stated: ‘We need our privateness revered.’

But a supply who was on Little St James on the related time, and requested to not be named, did converse to us. They stated the housekeepers had been tasked with collating passport numbers and dates of births of company together with any dietary necessities.

The supply stated they’d discovered just one lady — a French nationwide — was underage. She had a letter of consent from her mother and father and was ‘strictly chaperoned’, they claimed.

The housekeepers haven’t been approached by the FBI, stated the supply. But investigators from the American Virgin Islands’ authorities had been in contact with them.

So what proof is there left to search out?

The Mail has been instructed by former employees on the island that after Epstein was first arrested in 2006 — he was subsequently briefly jailed for procuring underage prostitutes — considered one of his company legal professionals flew in to St Thomas, the closest city, to talk to Mr Alexander.

The lawyer collected all of the information of the comings and goings on Little St James, which had been stored in official log books.

In their 2011 interview, the Alexanders recalled the Duke of York’s second go to to the island, when each Epstein and Maxwell had been current. This is believed to be the April 2001 go to.

But the primary go to they witnessed was much more memorable. ‘The Duke got here through helicopter together with his bodyguard and a lady in her 30s, who stated she was a mind surgeon,’ Mrs Alexander is reported to have stated.

‘She was tall, bleached blonde and had massive boobs. They shared a room and spent most of their time windsurfing, crusing or doing different water sports activities.’

Shown images of a number of girls linked to Epstein with whom the Duke has been linked, the supply thought the ‘bleached blonde’ may need been Gwendolyn Beck. She is a financier.

But there was a mind surgeon amongst Epstein’s feminine entourage. And as we will see tomorrow, she allegedly spent no less than one weekend within the Duke’s firm. But not on the personal island. 

PART FOUR

Prince Andrew ‘could not have gone driving with intercourse accuser as he had allergy to horse hair’ (however, shock! identical to his incapability to sweat, it is not too long ago been cured)

By Stephen Wright and Richard Pendlebury

From his incapability to sweat to his ‘Pizza Express’ story, offering alibis to reject the allegations made by his intercourse accuser Virginia Roberts has been a painful expertise for the Duke of York.

Now, within the ultimate a part of the Mail’s forensic investigation into the allegations made towards the duke, one more weird excuse has emerged.

This time it counters Miss Roberts’s assertion that the pair went horse driving collectively throughout a sex-filled break at Jeffrey Epstein’s New Mexico ranch, Zorro, about 20 years in the past.

Recalling the alleged journey in her unpublished memoir, Miss Roberts wrote: ‘My job was to entertain him endlessly, whether or not that meant having to bestow him my physique throughout an erotic therapeutic massage or just take him horseback driving.’

However, a pal of the duke instructed the Mail: ‘It’s well-known amongst his household and pals that the duke had a hay fever allergy that was with him all his life. So he gave up horse driving in his teenagers. The duchess persuaded him to take an acupuncture remedy in later life and that handled the horse hair allergy as properly.

‘So he took up horse driving once more in his 50s, took classes in 2017 and 2018 and was proficient sufficient for Trooping the Colour in honour of his mom later that yr.’ Extensive image analysis seems to again up the remark by one of many duke’s most loyal supporters.

Although Andrew has been pictured at horse exhibits through the years, there was a decades-long hole between him being photographed on horseback as a teen to pictures of him within the saddle in recent times.

Even so, the declare is certain to impress raised eyebrows, after a litany of comparable excuses have fallen aside.

Andrew denies all Miss Roberts’s allegations. The horse allergy alibi emerged on this newspaper’s painstaking investigation into her intercourse claims towards the duke.

In the fourth and ultimate a part of our sequence, we ask questions on her strategies the pair spent a few days collectively at Epstein’s Zorro ranch when she was a young person and reveal {that a} long-serving police bodyguard is for certain that she and Andrew had been by no means there collectively.

Instead, he’s certain – based mostly on a contemporaneous Filofax file – that the duke visited the ranch simply as soon as with a gorgeous American mind surgeon, Melanie Walker, with whom he had a detailed friendship on the time.

The Prince, his date at Jeffrey Epstein’s ranch, and what the bodyguard noticed: Yes, Duke joined lady at paedophile’s ‘Zorro’ property. But witnesses say it wasn’t his teenage accuser… it was a mind surgeon 

By Richard Pendlebury and Stephen Wright

Early November within the first yr of the millennium and the Duke of York is on his travels once more. 

As so typically, he’s combining pleasure with royal enterprise. On this event his journey has introduced him to New Mexico and a wilderness so huge it makes the royal estates at Balmoral and Sandringham seem to be suburban gardens as compared.

For the following week, his dwelling from house is Zorro Ranch; 8,000 acres of scrub and brush prairie, on the centre of which stands a hacienda-style mansion surrounded by manicured lawns and secluded lodges.

HRH was the visitor of a person with whom he had solely not too long ago grow to be acquainted. But what a useful pal to make — or so it appeared on the time. Zorro was however considered one of a number of incredible properties owned by Wall Street billionaire Jeffrey Epstein.

Epstein additionally ‘collected’ VIP pals just like the Duke who appreciated to take pleasure in his largesse, in addition to a number of engaging younger females — a few of them very younger certainly. One of those females could be the Duke of York’s companion at some stage in his go to; certainly she was to share his sleeping quarters with him.

DID ANDREW MEET VIRGINIA ROBERTS AT THE RANCH?

A Floridian teenager named Virginia Roberts had been recruited by Epstein to be his intercourse slave. As such, she was additionally anticipated to ‘service’ a few of his well-known pals.

In The Billionaire’s Playboy Club — the draft memoir Miss Roberts wrote in 2011 within the hope of getting an expert e book deal — she described being despatched to Zorro to satisfy up with the Duke. For two days, she and HRH had been alone collectively, she wrote, save for safety and home employees. Their time was stuffed with horseback driving and ‘erotic massages’.

Her 140-page manuscript — probably the most detailed account she has given of her time with Epstein — has since grow to be a authorized exhibit.

The Zorro interlude is only one of a number of devastating allegations Miss Roberts has made concerning the Duke over the previous decade.

For his half, Andrew emphatically denies ever having had sexual relations with Miss Roberts. Indeed, he says he can not even recall having met her.

But a disastrous interview on BBC’s Newsnight final November would seem to have failed to steer viewers of the Duke’s innocence in these issues.

Since then he has been successfully banished from public life, and the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) needs to query him.

An announcement in June from Blackfords legal professionals (on behalf of the Duke) claimed the DoJ had successfully rejected three affords of assist from the Prince, and he had been suggested ‘the Duke will not be and had by no means been a ‘goal’ of their prison investigations into Epstein’ and so they had sought his confidential, voluntary co-operation.

It added: ‘Unfortunately, the DoJ has reacted to the primary two affords by breaching their very own confidentiality guidelines and claiming that the Duke has provided zero co-operation. In doing so, they’re maybe looking for publicity reasonably than accepting the help proffered.’

Geoffrey S. Berman, former U.S. legal professional for the southern district of New York, was the goal of their ire for his public statements.

There is little doubt the Duke demonstrated catastrophic misjudgment in relation to his friendship with Epstein, who killed himself final yr whereas in jail going through paedophile sex-trafficking fees.

But was the Queen’s second son actually an lively member of Epstein’s paedophile cabal?

HOW ACCURATE ARE ACCUSER’S CLAIMS? 

The first three elements of the Mail’s investigation into Miss Roberts’s allegations towards the Duke of York have included numerous revelations which might be distinctly unhelpful to his case. But we have now additionally examined the accuracy of his accuser’s personal claims.

Yesterday, we regarded on the account she gave in The Billionaire’s Playboy Club manuscript of an orgy involving Epstein and numerous underage ladies.

This had allegedly taken place on the tycoon’s personal Caribbean island in the summertime of 2001. In her memoir, Miss Roberts didn’t place the Duke at this extraordinary occasion nor some other prefer it. If he had certainly taken half, why would she not have talked about it?

Yet in her 2015 authorized deposition, made beneath oath, and in varied media interviews, the Duke is a central participant in an orgy which seems an identical in virtually each respect — date, location, dialogue, ethnicity and variety of ladies, language boundaries, aftermath — to the one she described in her manuscript.

How does one clarify this as-yet-unexplained variation in a story regarding a critical prison allegation?

Today, drawing on new eyewitness proof and paperwork, we are going to dispassionately look at what Miss Roberts has written or stated concerning the Duke in relation to Zorro Ranch.

The variances in her account are, if something, extra peculiar. Not least as a result of beneath cross-examination 5 years after writing her memoir Miss Roberts appeared to disclaim she had met Andrew on the property.

The substance of this denial is supported by a reputable new eyewitness, who made a contemporaneous observe that also exists.

The Mail understands he’s sure the Duke had visited Zorro on just one event.

HRH had certainly spent a few of his time there alone, apart from the corporate of a younger feminine member of Epstein’s circle.

But she was not Virginia Roberts, stated the supply. And she was not at all beneath the age of consent.

THE DUKE’S STAY ‘WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND’  

On October 28, 2000, the Duke of York left London certain for New York to start an official go to to the United States.

On November 1, he flew on to Los Angeles, the place his official duties concluded three days later. According to the Court Circular, they resumed in London on November 12, when Andrew laid a wreath on the Cenotaph in Whitehall.

It is between these two dates that he spent a number of days at Zorro Ranch in New Mexico, sources in London instructed the Mail.

The property is distant, mendacity some 40 miles south of Santa Fe and an analogous distance east of Albuquerque. Flight logs recommend Epstein used the airports in each cities when he travelled to Zorro.

The Duke was accompanied by the identical senior Personal Protection Officer (PPO) who was to stick with him at Epstein’s mansion in New York the next Easter.

The police inspector — the Duke’s bodyguard for 15 years — stored a non-public Filofax diary through which he recorded his day by day duties and observations. He nonetheless has that Filofax, sources say.

Using this useful resource, the PPO remembers that the Duke stayed in one of many visitor lodges at Zorro, whereas he was quartered in a constructing close to the ranch entrance.

‘He knew who went in and who went out,’ says a supply. ‘And for more often than not the one one that was there with the Duke, aside from the ranch’s home employees, was his then girlfriend, Melanie Walker.’

Other sources have claimed that the Duke and his vacation companion had been simply good pals and never romantically concerned.

SO JUST WHO IS DR MELANIE WALKER? 

Neurosurgeon, tutorial and senior adviser to the president of the World Bank, Dr Melanie Walker is without doubt one of the most enigmatic figures within the Epstein story; the polar reverse in a number of respects, to Miss Roberts, although each had been a part of the tycoon’s entourage.

Dr Walker is claimed to have met Epstein in 1992, six months after graduating from the University of Texas. He instructed her he may get her an audition to mannequin for the lingerie agency Victoria’s Secret.

The firm was owned by style magnate Les Wexner, for whom Epstein acted as monetary adviser. Dr Walker moved into considered one of Epstein’s New York residences. In 1999, she began appearing as a passenger on his pilot’s flight logs.

That similar yr, having graduated from medical faculty, she took up a brand new function as Epstein’s science adviser.

She would later be part of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and have become an middleman between Epstein and the Microsoft co-founder.

But on the flip of the century Dr Walker, then 28 years previous, appears to have been an essential pivot within the tycoon’s burgeoning relationship with the Duke.

In June 2000, the neurosurgeon attended — in keeping with the visitor listing — the ‘Dance of the Decades’ occasion thrown at Windsor Castle by the Queen to mark numerous royal birthday milestones, together with the Duke’s fortieth and Princess Anne’s fiftieth.

Also current had been Epstein and his then girlfriend (and longstanding pal of Andrew) Ghislaine Maxwell, who’s at the moment in a U.S. jail on remand and going through fees of perjury and abetting Epstein in his sex-offending. She denies any wrongdoing. Using his contemporaneous notes, the PPO remembers that whereas for a lot of the keep at Zorro Ranch the Duke and Dr Walker had been alone — aside from safety and Epstein’s resident home employees — Epstein and Maxwell had joined them there for ‘no less than one evening’.

But they had been the one guests throughout Andrew’s keep. The PPO can be ‘adamant’ that HRH solely ever visited Zorro on that event, sources say. The PPO says he’s certain that he by no means met or noticed Miss Roberts throughout his time with the Duke.

That is to not say that she could not have met the Duke when different PPOs had been on responsibility — which stays a risk.

However, the PPO’s recollection chimes with that of former Zorro housekeeper Deidre Stratton. She instructed a 2019 podcast investigation of the Epstein affair that the Duke had stayed for 3 days in one of many lodges on the ranch. His bodyguard slept elsewhere on the property. But the Duke had not been alone in his personal three-bedroom lodging. ‘At the time, Jeffrey supposedly had this neurosurgeon,’ Stratton claimed. ‘Quite younger. Beautiful, younger and sensible and he or she stayed within the dwelling with (the Duke).’

That lovely younger neurosurgeon can solely have been Dr Melanie Walker, who right now is an educational, doctor and scientist who works at a group hospital within the U.S.

A supply near her instructed the Mail final evening: ‘She and Andrew are pals and had been on the ranch sooner or later in 1999 or 2000 with a number of different individuals.’

The Mail understands Dr Walker by no means met Miss Roberts at Zorro or on Epstein’s personal island, Little St James, which she additionally visited, and noticed nothing ‘inappropriate’ at both property.

My job there was to entertain him, whether or not giving erotic massages or taking him driving: What Virginia Roberts wrote in her memoir about journey to satisfy Prince Andrew… which she later described on oath as ‘inaccurate’

By Richard Pendlebury and Stephen Wright 

When Virginia Roberts wrote her memoir, The Billionaire’s Playboy Club, she described having had three sexual encounters with the Duke of York. 

The first, she stated, happened in London when she was simply 17, to which she claims to have been trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein.

The second occurred shortly afterwards on the Epstein mansion in New York.

Then, on web page 105 of the manuscript, Miss Roberts describes a ultimate sexual encounter with Andrew. She does so in appreciable, if not compelling, element.

Ghislaine Maxwell had instructed her to fly to Santa Fe to ‘meet somebody there’.

Miss Roberts recalled: ‘It was the center of the day once I arrived on the airport. One of the ranch palms got here to choose me up in a giant work truck that smelled like filth and sweat.

‘When we arrived on the mansion, my visitor was already there, ready for me.

‘I could not wipe the look off my face as he rotated from the bookshelf that he was standing at. “Hello” that very same previous tacky grin greeted me as soon as once more. It was His Highness Prince Andrew, and what a sight.

‘He wrapped his arms round my waist and greeted me like an previous pal. I hugged him again, rolling my eyes on the similar time, already dreading what lay in retailer over the following couple of days.

‘My job was to entertain him endlessly, whether or not that meant having to bestow him my physique throughout an erotic therapeutic massage or just take him horseback driving. For the following couple of days he was to be my solely concern.’

Miss Roberts and the Duke had been the one company on the ranch, she stated. ‘The mansion was fully empty save a few maids, who additionally cooked our dinners for us, and a few bodyguards that we hardly even noticed in any respect.

‘The time dragged slowly for me as I used to be counting down the hours till I flew away once more . . . it wasn’t simple assembly the sexual wishes of those unusual males, the Prince being considered one of them.

‘He beloved my ft and even licked between my toes . . . to me it was a dwelling nightmare.’

On the morning of the second day, Miss Roberts stated she was referred to as by considered one of Epstein’s assistants.

‘I had a flight booked for me to go away that afternoon, to reach at LaGuardia airport (in New York) within the night.’

And so far as the memoir’s narrative is anxious, these two days at Zorro had been the final time she ever met, not to mention had intercourse with, HRH the Duke of York.

The suggestion that Andrew went horse-riding with Miss Roberts is contested by his supporters.

A pal of the Duke stated: ‘It’s well-known amongst his household and pals that the Duke had a hay fever allergy that was with him all his life. So he gave up horse-riding in his teenagers.’

What, then, of images that clearly present the Duke on horseback in recent times? Apparently, the allergy has been cured.

‘The [Duchess of York] persuaded him to take an acupuncture remedy in later life and that handled the horse hair allergy as properly,’ says the supply.

‘So he took up horse-riding once more in his 50s, took classes in 2017 and 2018, and was proficient sufficient for Trooping the Colour in honour of his mom, the Queen, later that yr. The Duchess typically joked that it was simply her luck to marry a Prince who did not like horse-riding for pleasure — considered one of her nice passions earlier in life.’

2015 . . . VIRGINIA CHANGES HER STORY

In 2015, Miss Roberts tried to affix a authorized motion that had been introduced by two different alleged victims of Epstein towards the U.S. authorities in relation to the ‘sweetheart deal of the century’. 

This had allowed the paedophile tycoon to flee with a brief jail sentence when he was prosecuted in 2007-8.

To help her movement, Miss Roberts submitted a sworn affidavit through which she set out ‘beneath penalty of perjury’ her allegations towards Esptein and his highly effective pals who had allegedly abused her.

She included in her affidavit 4 images taken of her throughout visits to Zorro Ranch.

She alleged in her affidavit that she’d had intercourse with Epstein’s lawyer, the Harvard regulation professor Alan Dershowitz, in a therapeutic massage room on the ranch.

Dershowitz vehemently denies ever having intercourse along with her. Miss Roberts says of the Duke: ‘I had intercourse with him thrice, together with one orgy.’ 

She describes these events, which happened, she says, in London, at Epstein’s New York mansion and at his personal island within the Caribbean.

The sexual interlude with the Duke at Zorro Ranch, set out in such element in her memoir, didn’t — for no matter purpose — characteristic in her proof.

DID SOMEONE ELSE MAKE A MISTAKE?

After Ghislaine Maxwell accused her of mendacity about her paedophile allegations, Miss Roberts introduced a defamation motion towards her.

In November 2016, the abuse sufferer gave proof by video hyperlink from her dwelling in Australia. ‘Exhibit PP’ is a transcript of a part of her deposition which has since been launched into the general public area.

Miss Roberts is being cross-examined by Maxwell’s lawyer about perceived inaccuracies in articles about her; notably these written by the Sunday newspaper journalist to whom she had given her first media interview in 2011.

Miss Roberts was requested by the lawyer to have a look at copies of those articles and make ‘checkmarks’ towards any of the statements which she thought of to be inaccurate.

Maxwell’s lawyer: ‘What’s the following one you will have a checkmark by?

Miss Roberts: ‘I additionally noticed Prince Andrew at a ranch in New Mexico.’

Lawyer: ‘Did you inform that to (title of journalist)?

Miss Roberts: ‘No. And I believe it is a mistake. Maybe she meant elsewhere, however as a result of we had been speaking about a lot, possibly she simply put New Mexico.

‘I do not suppose (the journalist) deliberately lied on any of those . . . a few of the info simply received misheard, or mishandled.’

Lawyer: ‘And what was printed was inaccurate?’

Miss Roberts: ‘Was that printed? I do not bear in mind studying that within the papers, but when it was printed, it is inaccurate.’

So how can we reconcile this assertion with the contents of The Billionaire’s Playboy Club? 

According to a different courtroom doc in May 2011, Miss Roberts despatched an electronic mail to a journalist through which she boasted of the manuscript: ‘I’m bringing down the home with this e book!’

In later cross-examination through the Maxwell defamation case, Miss Roberts insisted that the manuscript was ‘based mostly on truth’. There had been, she conceded, ‘some errors’.

Mistakes in a narrative akin to this is able to be pure. The occasions that Miss Roberts talks about allegedly happened a very long time in the past. Memories inexorably dissipate and degrade.

Miss Roberts can be a sufferer of dreadful sexual abuse; she was groomed and trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein.

Given all the trauma that attaches to the reminiscences of that interval, conflation and confusion in a few of her recollection could be anticipated.

But, given the 2 completely different tales she has instructed concerning the alleged goings-on on the ranch in New Mexico, how can we probably know which one to consider?

The similar might be requested of the opposite three sexual encounters through which Miss Roberts has alleged that the Duke engaged along with her.

Her accounts are sometimes inconsistent and generally contradictory. Yet Prince Andrew’s denials are merely not ok to clear his title.